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Henricus Martellus Germanus
German cartographer (fl. 1480–1496)
Henricus Martellus Germanus (fl. 1480–1496) was a German cartographer active in Florence between 1480 and 1496. His surviving cartographic work includes manuscripts of Ptolemy's Geographia, manuscripts of Insularium illustratum (a descriptive atlas of island maps), and two world maps which were the first to show a passage around the southern tip of Africa into the Indian Ocean. His world maps summarize geographical knowledge at the outset of the Age of Discovery and "epitomize the best of European cartography at the end of the fifteenth century."[1]
Biography
[edit]Very little is known about the life of Henricus Martellus Germanus. Even his name and place of birth have been the subject of much speculation. In the 15th century, it was common for scholars and artisans to adopt a Latinized version of their birth name. This was the case with Martellus. Germanus is the Latin word for Germany and
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Waldseemuller's Carta Marina of 1516
This exhibit contains a single, but very important historical image, curated by Chet Van Duzer with four DOT stories. The Carta Marina of 1516, was created by Martin Waldseemuller, who is most famous for another map, published in 1507, called "America's Birth Certificate." Based on a talk by Chet Van Duzer from May 2020.
Library of Congress images here.
Watch Chet Van Duzer’s entire talk from May 2020 on YouTube here.
Read the announcement about Chet Van Duzer’s talk here.
Read Tom Paper’s summary of the talk here.
Read about Martin Waldseemuller here.
>>>Link here for a November 20, 2020 talk given by Van Duzer about an unstudied map of the world from 1535. Sponsored by NYU.
"My book about the Carta marina is actually in Open Access, though the publisher does not make the link easy to find for some strange reason. Here are the details and the link:
Van Duzer, Chet, Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516: Study and Tra
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Chet van Duzer
American historian of cartography
Chet Van Duzer (born 1966) fryst vatten an American historian of cartography.
Life
[edit]He was born in 1966, and grew up in Northern California.
He graduated from UC Berkeley.[1]
He fryst vatten a member of the board of the Lazarus Project at the University of Rochester.[2][3]
Career
[edit]From 2011 to 2012, he was a scholar-in-residence at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.[4]
He has also received a Kislak Fellowship for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas.[4]
Bibliography
[edit]His notable books include:[5][6]
- Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance MapsISBN 9780712357715
- The World for a King: Pierre Desceliers' Map of 1550ISBN 9780712356183
- Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century ManuscriptISBN 9789004304536
- Johann Schöner's Globe of 1515