La cosmographie de Pierre Apian, libure tresutile, traictant de toutes les regions [et] pays du monde par artifice astronomicque, nouuellement traduict de latin en françois. ; Et par Gemma Frison ... corrige. Auecq[ue] aultres libures du mesme Gemma Fr. appartenantz audict artifice, com[m]e la page ensuyuante la declaire

Apian, Peter, 1495-1552, Gemma, Frisius, 1508-1555 · 1544 · [Antwerp] : M.D.XLIIII. On les vend en Anuers sur le pont de chambre chez Gregoire Bonte a l'escu de Basle, imprimez en latin, francois, [et] flameng. · 16 pictures

A 1544 Antwerp edition of Peter Apian's cosmography, translated from Latin into French and corrected by Gemma Frisius, issued for French-reading merchants, scholars and navigators, and printed in Latin, French and Flemish. Its woodcuts show armillary-style instruments, a sighting device aimed at the pole star, a climate table and a meridian ellipse diagram, with clean, ruled linework a designer could borrow for diagrammatic or scientific graphics.

Cosmography · Geography

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