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Latina: Universalis Cosmographia |
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English: This tiny world map dating from 1546 reflects the extraordinary influence of Martin Waldseemüller's now-famous 1507 cordiform (heart-shaped) wall map of the world Universails Cosmographia Secundum Ptholomaei Traditionem et Americi Vespucii Alioru[m] que Lustrationes… in which Waldseemüller first coined the name "America" for a continent. The little map's creator, Johannes Honter (1498-1549) was born in Kronstadt (today Brasov, Romania) and later worked in Vienna, Regensburg, Krakow, Nuremberg, Basel, and Kronstadt, where with his liberal humanist education he became a respected educator, evangelical pastor, town magistrate, and councilor. While in Regensburg, Bavaria, Honter visited nearby Ingolstadt, where he became friends with humanist, mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer Peter Apian (1495-1552), who in 1520 had created the first copy of Waldseemüller's wall map to appear in a book. The original woodcut for Honter's map was made in Zurich (hence the Latin "Tiguri" seen in the bottom left corner by the initials of the map’s engraver Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder) "at great cost" according to the accompanying text of Rudimenta Cosmographica.... |
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English: The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special Collections |
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Rudimenta Cosmographica |
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| Place of publication | Zurich | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dimensions | height: 12 cm (4.7 in); width: 16.2 cm (6.3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | hand-colored engraving on paper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Shirley, Rodney W. (1984) The Mapping of the World: Early Printed World Maps 1472-1700, London: The Holland Press, no. 86 , pp. 97–98 |
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This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries as part of a cooperation project. The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries is part of the University of Texas at Arlington, a public research university located in Arlington, Texas.
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The author died in 1556, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929. |
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