Nicolaus Germanus's 1467 manuscript copy of Ptolemy's world map, displaying Nicolaus Germanus's form of Ptolemy's 2nd projection and the expanded knowledge of Scandinavia in the northwest.[1]A modern book illustration of the world map in the Ulm PtolemyJohannes Schnitzer's world map from Holle's 1482 edition of Ptolemy's Geography.
Nicolaus Germanus (c. 1420 – c. 1490)[2] was a German cartographer who modernized Ptolemy's Geography by applying new projections, adding additional maps, and contributing other innovations that were influential in the development of Renaissance cartography.
NicolausGermanus (c. 1420 – c. 1490) was a German cartographer who modernized Ptolemy's Geography by applying new projections, adding additional maps...
1013) English abbot NicolausGermanus, 15th-century cartographer Henricus Martellus Germanus, 15th-century cartographer Moses Germanus or Johann Peter Spaeth...
longitude. The earliest reference of 60 miles to a degree is a map by NicolausGermanus in a 1482 edition of Geography (Ptolemy) indicating one degree of...
Archived from the original on 13 May 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2016. Germanus, Nicolaus, ed. (1482), Claudii Ptolomei Viri Alexandrini Cosmographie Octavus...
education or experience, although his work shows some influence of NicolausGermanus, another German cartographer active in Florence. His own assertion...
which the gulf has been delineated, although without name, is that of NicolausGermanus from the year 1482. The land surrounding the Gulf of Bothnia is heavily...
mathematician and astronomer Regiomontanus (1436-1476), mathematician NicolausGermanus (1420-1490), geographer Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), philosopher...
details from the eleventh map of Asia (Southeast Asia). Details from NicolausGermanus' 1467 copy of a map from Ptolemy's Geography, showing the Golden Chersonese...
15th-century reconstruction by German cartographer NicolausGermanus of a 2nd-century map by Roman geographer Ptolemy, depicting Arachosia and surrounding...
Maps using the 2nd projection were not made in Western Europe until NicolausGermanus's 1466 edition. Ptolemy's 3rd (and hardest) projection does not seem...
maps of France, Italy, Spain and the Holy Land, based on the work of NicolausGermanus.² Berlinghieri's work was originally to be dedicated to the Ottoman...
(Croatia/Slovenia, 1861–1944) Johann Gottlieb Georgi (Germany, 1729–1802) NicolausGermanus (Germany, c. 1420 – c. 1490) Gerald of Wales (Wales, fl. 1310–1330)...
Details from NicolausGermanus's 1467 copy of a map from Ptolemy's Geography, showing the Golden Chersonese, i.e. the Malay Peninsula of Malaysia in the...
century: The German monk NicolausGermanus wrote a pioneering Cosmographia. He added the first new maps to Ptolemy's Geographica. Germanus invented the Donis...
Cianeis off the Black Sea coast of Thrace, featured on a 1467 map by NicolausGermanus based on Claudius Ptolemy's Geography. Kianida Reef is located at...
Silvestris Cosmographia, a fifteenth-century work by the German geographer NicolausGermanus Cosmographia, an alternative title of Petrus Apianus' sixteenth-century...
that most, but not all names, agree with those given in Situations. NicolausGermanus's 1467 manuscript copy of Ptolemy's world map. Note the Romanized names...
but Ptolemy has them trending E-W, beginning with Sammonium.(Expand the Germanus map below.) The line fits the northeast promontory fairly well except for...
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