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Cosmographia – Ulm 1482; Geographia. Latin
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Cosmographia – Ulm 1482; Geographia. Latin

The world map from an 1482 edition of Nicolaus Germanus's emendations to Jacobus Angelus's 1406 Latin translation of Maximus Planudes's late-13th century rediscovered Greek manuscripts of Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography.

Date
1482
Mapmaker / publisher
Lord Nicolas the German (Donnus Nicholas Germanus), cartographer Johann the Blockcutter of Armsheim (Johannes Schnitzer or Johannes de Armssheim), engraver Ptolemy (Klaudios Ptolemaios) Jacobus Angelu
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
10,880 × 8,160 pixels

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"Cosmographia – Ulm 1482; Geographia. Latin" (1482). Lord Nicolas the German (Donnus Nicholas Germanus), cartographer Johann the Blockcutter of Armsheim (Johannes Schnitzer or Johannes de Armssheim), engraver Ptolemy (Klaudios Ptolemaios) Jacobus Angelu, via Wikimedia Commons. CC0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cosmographia_%E2%80%93_Ulm_1482_-_Kungliga_Biblioteket_-_3276974-thumb.png

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