German cartographer, cosmographer, and scholar (1488–1552)

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The cosmographia of Sebastian Münster : describing the world in the Reformation / Matthew McLean.

Cosmographiae universalis libri VI in quibus ... describuntur, omnium habitabilis orbis partes situs, propriaeque dotes.

Cosmographey. Oder Beschreibung aller Länder Herrschafftenn vnd fürnembsten Stetten des gantzen Erdbodens, sampt jḣren Gelegenheiten, Eygenschafften, Religion, Gebreüchen, Geschichten vnnd Handthierungen / Erstlich durch Herrn Sebastian Munster mit grosser Arbeit in sechs Bücher verfasset, demnach an Welt vnd natürlichen Historien, durch jhn selbs gebesseret: Jetz aber auffs letstes mit allerley Gedechtnuss wirdigen Sachen, nach innhalt folgendts Blatts, bisz in das M.D. LXXVIII Jar gemehret, vnd mit drey vnd viertzig Stetten neüwen Contrafacturen, welche vber die alten Herzůkomen, bezieret.

Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines (Leberthal), Alsace: silver-miners are hammering at the rock underground as others are using a winch to pull up a bucket. Woodcut, 1598.

Cosmographia, sive descriptio vniversi orbis / auctoribus Petro Apiano, et Gemma Frisio, mathematicorum insignium ; cuius huic editioni additus est de Astrolabo catholico libellus, nunc primum à Martino Euerartho in epitomen contractus ; caetera vide pagina quinta ...jam demum integritati suae restituta. Adjecti sunt alii, tum Gemmae Frisii, tum aliorum auctorum ejus argumenti tractatus ac libelli varii.

Shelosh ʿesreh ʿiḳarim, divre ha-bayit ha-sheni, ʿeser geliyot Yisraʾel = tredicim Articuli fidei Iudaeorum, item, Compendium elegans historiarum Iosephi, complectens: Acta LXX, Interpretum: Gesta Machabeorum: Facta Herodum: Excidium Hierosolymitanum, item, decem captivitates Iudaeorum : Haec per Sebastianum Munsterum & Hebraeis & Latinis legenda exarantur.

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Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines (Leberthal), Alsace: silver-miners are hammering at the rock underground as others are using a winch to pull up a bucket. Woodcut, 1598.

Cosmographiae universalis libri VI in quibus ... describuntur, omnium habitabilis orbis partes situs, propriaeque dotes.