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  • Cosmographia (Latin, from Greek κόσμος, "world, universe", and γραφή, "representation") may refer to: Cosmographia, an alternative name for Ptolemy's Geographia...
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    The Cosmographia ("Cosmography") from 1544 by Sebastian Münster (1488–1552) is the earliest German-language description of the world. It had numerous editions...
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    Istria or Aethicus Ister) was the protagonist of the 7th/8th-century Cosmographia, purportedly written by a man of church Hieronymus (Jerome, but not the...
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    Cosmographia ("Cosmography"), also known as De mundi universitate ("On the totality of the world"), is a Latin philosophical allegory, dealing with the...
    16 KB (2,086 words) - 12:33, 8 April 2024
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    The Waldseemüller map or Universalis Cosmographia ("Universal Cosmography") is a printed wall map of the world by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller...
    51 KB (7,080 words) - 02:22, 6 July 2024
  • Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica ("Cosmography and geography of Africa") is a work completed by Leo Africanus March 10, 1526. The text from this work...
    2 KB (218 words) - 15:18, 31 October 2022
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    Nicolaus Germanus (c. 1420 – c. 1490) was a German cartographer who modernized Ptolemy's Geography by applying new projections, adding additional maps...
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    which is illustrated by the full title of the atlas: Atlas Maior, sive Cosmographia Blaviana, qua solum, salum, coelum, accuratissime describuntur (Grand...
    14 KB (1,420 words) - 11:33, 12 February 2024
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    University of Basel. His well-known work, the highly accurate world map, Cosmographia, sold well and went through 24 editions. Its influence was widely spread...
    11 KB (1,204 words) - 18:26, 10 June 2024
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    Map of the Scandiae islands by Nicolaus Germanus for a 1467 publication of Cosmographia Claudii Ptolomaei Alexandrini...
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    The Ravenna Cosmography (Latin: Ravennatis Anonymi Cosmographia, lit. "The Cosmography of the Unknown Ravennese") is a list of place-names covering the...
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    reproduction of the Lord's Prayer in Latvian in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia universalis (1544), in Latin script. Latvian belongs to the Indo-European...
    50 KB (4,806 words) - 05:52, 14 June 2024
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    Ptolemy's Taprobana as published in Cosmographia Claudii Ptolomaei Alexandrini, 1535...
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  • Description of Africa, as a book title, may refer to: Description of Africa (1550 book) by Giovanni Battista Ramusio, published in Italian Description...
    327 bytes (66 words) - 08:35, 28 July 2014
  • edited Bernardus' Cosmographia, believed that he lived from 1085 to 1178. The most secure date in his life is 1147–48, when the Cosmographia was supposedly...
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    an illustration that begins the first chapter of Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia, first published in 1544, a book which Flammarion, an ardent bibliophile...
    24 KB (2,997 words) - 00:41, 3 June 2024
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    Universalis Cosmographia, also known as the Waldseemüller map, dated 1507, was the first map to show the Americas separating two distinct oceans. South...
    82 KB (8,703 words) - 11:29, 7 July 2024
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    A depiction of the apple-shot scene in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia (1554 edition)....
    44 KB (5,576 words) - 02:53, 5 June 2024
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    land. In 1507 Martin Waldseemüller published a world map, Universalis Cosmographia, which was the first to show North and South America as separate from...
    90 KB (8,822 words) - 13:20, 9 July 2024
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    A decapitation scene as shown in Cosmographia universalis of Sebastian Münster (1552)....
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