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Ioannis Schoneri Carolostadii opusculum geographicum ex diuersorum libris ac cartis summa cura & diligentia collectum, accommodatum ad recenter elaboratum ab eodem globum descriptionis terrenæ. .

Schöner, Johann, 1477-1547 · 1533 · [Nuremberg : Johann Petrejus] · 3 pictures

A 1533 Latin cosmography printed in Nuremberg by Johann Petreius under the name of Johann Schöner, a mathematician and globe maker, and written for scholars and students of geography. Its pictures are woodcut diagrams of a celestial armillary sphere held by a kneeling Atlas, a terrestrial globe on a claw-footed stand with the continents labelled, and a circular wind or zodiac chart set among dense Latin text, offering a designer clear, early models of spherical instruments rendered in crisp line.

Cosmography

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