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# Book I - Astronomy, Mathematics, Physical Geography, Cartography
:Book I - Astronomy, Mathematics, Physical Geography, Cartography
# Book II - England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, [[Savoy]], [[Trier]], Italy
:Book II - England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, [[Savoy]], [[Trier]], Italy
# Book III - Germany, [[Alsace]], Switzerland, Austria, [[Carniola]], [[Istria]], [[Bohemia]], [[Moravia]], [[Silesia]], [[Pomerania]], [[Prussia]], [[Livland]]
:Book III - Germany, [[Alsace]], Switzerland, Austria, [[Carniola]], [[Istria]], [[Bohemia]], [[Moravia]], [[Silesia]], [[Pomerania]], [[Prussia]], [[Livland]]
# Book IV - Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, [[Walachia]], Bosnia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Turkey
:Book IV - Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, [[Walachia]], Bosnia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Turkey
# Book V - Asia Minor, Cyprus, Armenia, Palestine, Arabia, Persia, Central Asia, Afghanistan, [[Scythia]], [[Tartary]], India, [[Ceylon]], Burma, China, East Indies, Madagascar, Zanzibar, America
:Book V - Asia Minor, Cyprus, Armenia, Palestine, Arabia, Persia, Central Asia, Afghanistan, [[Scythia]], [[Tartary]], India, [[Ceylon]], Burma, China, East Indies, Madagascar, Zanzibar, America
# Book VI - Mauritania, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, South Africa, East Africa
:Book VI - Mauritania, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, South Africa, East Africa


==Editions of ''Cosmographia''==
==Editions of ''Cosmographia''==

Revision as of 22:44, 11 August 2016

Cover of first edition, printed in Basel by Heinrich Petri

The Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster (1488 – 1552) from 1544 is the earliest German-language description of the world.[1]

It had numerous editions in different languages including Latin, French (translated by François de Belleforest), Italian, English, and Czech. The last German edition was published in 1628, long after his death. The Cosmographia was one of the most successful and popular books of the 16th century. It passed through 24 editions in 100 years. This success was due to the notable woodcuts (some by Hans Holbein the Younger, Urs Graf, Hans Rudolph Manuel Deutsch, and David Kandel). It was most important in reviving geography in 16th-century Europe.

His earlier geographic works were Germania descriptio (1530) and Mappa Europae (1536). In 1540, he published a Latin edition of Ptolemy's Geographia with illustrations.

Contents

Europa regina in the 1570 Cosmographia.

As late as the 1598 edition, the content consisted of:

Book I - Astronomy, Mathematics, Physical Geography, Cartography
Book II - England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Savoy, Trier, Italy
Book III - Germany, Alsace, Switzerland, Austria, Carniola, Istria, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Pomerania, Prussia, Livland
Book IV - Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Walachia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Turkey
Book V - Asia Minor, Cyprus, Armenia, Palestine, Arabia, Persia, Central Asia, Afghanistan, Scythia, Tartary, India, Ceylon, Burma, China, East Indies, Madagascar, Zanzibar, America
Book VI - Mauritania, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, South Africa, East Africa

Editions of Cosmographia

  • German 1544, 1546, 1548, 1550, 1553, 1556, 1558, 1561, 1564, 1567, 1569, 1572, 1574, 1578, 1588, 1592, 1598, 1614, 1628
  • Latin 1550, 1552, 1554, 1559, 1572
  • French 1552, 1556, 1560, 1565, 1568, 1575
  • Italian 1558, 1575
  • Czech 1554

References

  1. ^ The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1974, ISBN 0-85229-290-2 [1]

Further reading

  • Karl Heinz Burmeister: Sebastian Münster - Versuch eines biographischen Gesamtbildes. Basler Beiträge zur Geschichtswissenschaft, Band 91, Basel und Stuttgart 1963 und 1969.
  • Karl Heinz Burmeister: Sebastian Münster - Eine Bibliographie. Wiesbaden 1964.
  • Hans Georg Wehrens: Freiburg in der „Cosmographia“ von Sebastian Münster (1549); in Freiburg im Breisgau 1504 - 1803, Holzschnitte und Kupferstiche. Verlag Herder, Freiburg 2004, S. 34 ff. ISBN 3-451-20633-1.
  • Günther Wessel: Von einem, der daheim blieb, die Welt zu entdecken - Die Cosmographia des Sebastian Münster oder Wie man sich vor 500 Jahren die Welt vorstellte. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 3-593-37198-7.
  • Ludwig Geiger (1886), "Münster, Sebastian", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 23, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 30–33
  • Claus Priesner (1997), "Münster, Sebastian", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 18, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 539–541
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