La cosmographie de Pierre Apian, ... traictant de toutes les regions, pais, villes, [et] citez du monde, par artifice astronomique,

Apian, Peter, 1495-1552, Gemma, Frisius, 1508-1555 · 1551 · A Paris. : Par Viuant Gaultherot, libraire iuré en l'uniuersité de Paris, demourant en la rue Sainct Iaques, a l'enseigne S. Martin. · 20 pictures

La cosmographie is a 1551 French cosmography by Peter Apian and Gemma Frisius, printed in Paris by Vivant Gaultherot for readers of astronomy and geography. Its woodcuts show instruments and diagrams: a sighting device over a graduated arc with a terrestrial globe below, a bound armillary sphere of interlocking rings, a horizontal grid of parallels with a sketched map of Paris, and a hemisphere of constellations with a degree scale. Designers could draw on the crisp linework, the dense numerals, and the contrast between solid black star fields and open rules.

Cosmography · Geography

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