Cosmographi[a]e introductio : cum quibusdam geometri[a]e ac astronomi[a]e principijs ad eam rem necessarijs. Insuper Quattuor Americi Vespucij nauigationes. : Uniuersalis cosmographi[a]e descriptio tam in solido [quam] plano, eis etiam insertis qu[a]e Ptholom[a]eo ignota, a nuperis reperta sunt
Cosmographiae introductio is a 1509 cosmography printed at Strasbourg by Johannes Grüninger, compiled by Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann with Amerigo Vespucci's voyage letters, written for scholars and students of geography and astronomy. Its pages are dense black-letter text under woodcut headings, with one page showing a circular diagram of the celestial spheres, zodiac signs and the equator, with labelled poles and houses in ruled circles that a designer could borrow for compass-rose or armillary layouts.
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