"Cosmographei oder Beschreibung der aler lander" title-page engraving
| Author: | Sebastian Münster (1488–1552) |
Sebastian Münster (1488–1552) was a German scientist with a broad background: he was a geographer, cartographer, cosmographer, mathematician and professor of Hebrew. His Cosmographia universalis, first published in 1544, was an outstanding description of the world as known in the 16th century: a textbook, encyclopedic directory and an atlas of continents, maps and city plans. More than 40 increasingly revised editions of Cosmographia were published in 5 languages between 1544 and 1628. In Cosmographia, Lithuania is presented in the maps of the World, Europe, allegorical Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia, Prussia, Scandinavia and two regional maps.
Sebastian Münster (1488–1552) was a German scientist with a broad background: he was a geographer, cartographer, cosmographer, mathematician and professor of Hebrew. His Cosmographia universalis, first published in 1544, was an outstanding description of the world as known in the 16th century: a textbook, encyclopedic directory and an atlas of continents, maps and city plans. More than 40 increasingly revised editions of Cosmographia were published in 5 languages between 1544 and 1628. In Cosmographia, Lithuania is presented in the maps of the World, Europe, allegorical Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia, Prussia, Scandinavia and two regional maps.
