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 SEBASTIAN MUNSTER, 1489-1550
MUNSTER (1489-1552) was a German cosmographer,
mathematician and Hebrew scholar. He taught at Basel , Switzerland, where, in
1544, he published the first edition of the Cosmographia, the earliest German
description of the world. In later editions of the book, as for example La
Cosmographie Universelle de Tout le Monde, edited by F. de Bell-Forest, Paris, 1575,
a large woodcut view of Cairo is included, copied from Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates
Orbis Terrarum.1
References
Munster,
Sebastian, 1489-1552. Cosmographei. With an introd. by R. Oehme. Amsterdam, Theatrum Orbis
Terrarum, 1968.
Mirror of the world. First series, v. 5
Mirror of the world. 1st ser., v. 5.
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