page_title: Girolamo Ruscelli
hierarchical_section_title: Girolamo Ruscelli
caption_attribution_description: English: Ruscelli's 1561 map of New Spain was an enlarged copy of fellow Venetian Giacomo Gastaldi's 1548 map of New Spain, but with a major difference: Ruscelli's map showed Yucatan correctly as a peninsula, not an island. Both were New World addendum maps for "modern" editions of the 2nd century Greek geographer Claudius Ptolemy's book on geography.
context_page_description: Girolamo Ruscelli was an Italian mathematician and cartographer active in Venice during the early 16th century. He was also an alchemist, writing pseudonymously as Alessio Piemontese.
context_section_description: Girolamo Ruscelli (1518–1566) was an Italian mathematician and cartographer active in Venice during the early 16th century. He was also an alchemist, writing pseudonymously as Alessio Piemontese.
caption: 1561 map of Mexico by Girolamo Ruscelli
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