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Matthias Ringmann (1482–1511) was a German humanist and scholar in early 16th-century Strasbourg. He collaborated with cartographer Martin Waldseemüller on the 1507 world map and accompanying *Cosmographiae Introductio*, in which the name "America" was proposed for the New World after Amerigo Vespuc...
Peter Apian, also known as Petrus Apianus, was a German humanist, mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer active in the early 16th century. His Cosmographicus liber (1524) was a widely reprinted textbook on navigation, cartography, and astronomy, and his Astronomicum Caesareum (1540) featured in...
Sebastian Münster was a German cartographer, cosmographer, Hebraist, and Christian scholar of the Renaissance. His Cosmographia, first published in 1544, assembled maps, city views, historical material, and descriptions of peoples and regions into an extensively illustrated account of the known worl...
Peter Apian, also known as Petrus Apianus, was a 16th-century German humanist, mathematician, and cartographer. In 1524, he published the Cosmographicus liber, a highly influential work that popularized mapmaking techniques and instruments in Europe. The book went through numerous editions and made...
German physician and 16th-century compiler who published vernacular works on medicine and geography in Strasbourg, adapting Latin classical and humanist sources for German-speaking readers.
