Johann Schoner's Globe of 1515: Transcription and Study Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 100, Part 5)

by Chet Van Duzer

The first detailed study of the terrestrial globe of Johann Schoner (1477-1547), a cosmographer and teacher of mathematics in Nurnberg, which he made as part of the first pair of celestial and terrestrial globes in 1515. The globe is not much younger than the earliest surviving terrestrial globe from 1492. The globe is an important part of early 16th-cent. cartography, and an important chapter in the cartographic history of the New World. Transcribing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606180053
• ISBN13: 9781606180051
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 217 Pages