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1564 MÜNSTER, S. - [ Zürich ]
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One Latin text page with a wood-cut illustration of Zürich (120 x 173 mm). From Münster's Cosmographia Universalis. The Cosmographia by Sebastian Munster from 1544 is the earliest German description of the world. It had numerous editions in different languages, including Latin, French (translated by François de Belleforest), Italian, English, and even Czech.
The last German edition was published in 1628, long after his death. The Cosmographia was one of the most successful and popular books of the 16th century. It passed through 24 editions in 100 years. This success was due to the fascinating woodcuts (some by Hans Holbein the Younger, Urs Graf, Hans Rudolph Manuel Deutsch, and David Kandel).It was most important in reviving geography in 16th-century Europe.
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Sebastian Münster (20 January 1488 - 26 May 1552)
A German cartographer, cosmographer, and Hebrew scholar. He was born in Niederingelheim, near Mainz, where Johannes Gutenberg invented movable-type printing in the 1460s. In 1505, Münster became a Franciscan monk and studied philosophy and theology at the order's university in Heidelberg. He produced his own edition of Ptolemy's Geographia in 1540, adding several significantly new maps to the modern section of the work. There were further editions of the Geographia in 1541, 1542, 1545 and 1552. All were printed in Basel in Latin.His two major works, the Geographia and the Cosmographia, continued to be published by his stepson, Heinrich Petri, long after Munster's death from the plague in 1552. Later editions of Munster's Cosmographia included updated maps.
He wrote grammars, dictionaries and a Hebrew Bible with a Latin translation (1534–35), which made him well known across Europe.
He is also known for his writings on mathematics and astronomy. His treatises on sundials, instruments, and mathematics reflect his training in Tübingen.
He is known for:
- His early maps of Germany. From the late 1520s, he surveyed and mapped the German lands, relying on friends and local scholars for data.
- Ptolemy's Geographia (Basel, 1540). An edition that combined the classical Ptolemaic maps with new maps of the modern world, showing the continents as they were then understood.
- The Cosmographia (first edition 1544).Â
He is best known for his Cosmographia
First published in German in Basel by Heinrich Petri in 1544, the Cosmographia described every known region of the world: its geography, peoples, customs, history, natural wonders, and cities. Münster gathered material from classical and contemporary authors and also asked scholars, officials and travelers across Europe to contribute descriptions and views of their own regions, an early example of crowd-sourced scholarship.
The work was extraordinarily successful. The book appeared in more than forty editions between 1544 and 1650, in German, Latin, French, Italian, Czech and an abridged English version. His successors later enlarged editions, so the book's content changed considerably over the century.
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