Sebastian Münster
German cartographer, cosmographer, and scholar (1488–1552) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sebastian Münster (20 January 1488 – 26 May 1552)[1] was a German cartographer and cosmographer. He also was a Christian Hebraist scholar who taught as a professor at the University of Basel. His well-known work, the highly accurate world map, Cosmographia, sold well and went through 24 editions. Its influence was widely spread by a production of woodcuts created of it by a variety of artists.[2]