 He and his collaborator, Matthias Ringmann, are credited with the first recorded usage of the word "America" to name a portion of the New World in honour of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci.Waldseemüller was also the first to map South America as a continent separate from Asia; the first to produce a printed globe and the first to create a printed wall map of Europe.A set of his maps printed as an appendix to the 1513 edition of Ptolemy's "Geography" is considered to be the first example of a modern atlas.