Germanus, Henricus Martellus
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Name (Latin)
Germanus, Henricus Martellus
Date of birth
1480
Date of death
1496
Associated country
Germany
Field of activity
Cartography
Occupation
Cartographers
Associated Language
lat
Gender
male
Language
Latin
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Description of the Aegean and other islands, 2017:
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Insularium Illustratum
Henricus Martellus Germanus
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File:Martellus-Yale.jpg
Heinrich Hammer, Public domain
File:World map by Martellus - Account of the Islands of the Mediterranean (1489), ff.68v-69 - BL Add MS 15760.jpg
Heinrich Hammer the German ("Henricus Martellus Germanus")
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Wikipedia description:
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."
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