Ptolemaeus - Geographie opus novissima.. (Strassburg 1513)
GEOGRAPHIE OPUS NOVISSIMA TRADUCTIONE E GRECORUM ARCHETYPIS. STRASSBURG: JOHANN SCHOTT, 12 MARCH 1513
The first modern atlas, prepared by Martin Waldseemüller using the translation of Mathias Ringmann. this is one of the most important editions of Ptolemy, containing many new regional maps.
Twenty new maps based on contemporary knowledge were included in addition to the traditional body of twenty-seven Ptolemaic maps derived from the 1482 Ulm edition. Schott's edition was commenced by the most famous of all early sixteenth-century cosmographers, Martin Waldseemüller and his associate Mathias Ringmann, partly at the expense of Duke René of Lorraine. It was brought to completion by Jacobus Eszler and Georgius Ubelin.
The atlas contains the first map in an atlas entirely devoted to america (Tabula terre nove), often called the “Admiral’s map” after Columbus. The map of Lotharingia (the first map of the Duchy of Lorrain), printed in black, red and olive, is one the earliest examples of colour-printing.
This edition was reprinted in 1520 using the same woodcut blocks
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