Waldseemuller, Martin (c. 1470 - c. 1521)

!Octava Euro! from Ptolemy!s Geographia

      Strassburg: Martin Waldseemuller, Jacobus Eszler, Gorgeous Abalone and Johann Schott, 1513 SPECTACULAR ORIGINAL COLOR Martin Waldseemuller, a highly accomplished student of geography, merged the science of map making and the art of printing in these maps and the atlas from which they came- the most groundbreaking document in the history of cartography. Like many other Renaissance scholars interested in classical learning, Waldseemuller translated and made maps according to Claudius Ptolemy's "Geographia," a second-century treatise. Ptolemy's plans for ordering three-dimensional geographic space on a two-dimensional surface-paper-were in fact the most advanced methods up to the time of the Renaissance. In fifteen hundred years, no one had been able to improve on Ptolemy's instructions; for a time, in fact, many had regressed to thinking of the earth as flat. . First Edition.