Cosmographiae introductio : cum quibusdam geometriæ ac. astronomiae principiis ad eamdem necessariis. Insuper Quatuor Americi Vespucii nauigationes. : Vniuersalis chosmographiæ descriptio tam in solido [quam] plano eis etiam insertis quæ Ptholomæo ignota a nuperis reperta sunt
Cosmographiae introductio is a 1517 Latin cosmography printed in Lyons by Johannes de la Place, with text by Martin Waldseemüller and Amerigo Vespucci's voyage letters, written for scholars and students of geography and astronomy. Its pictures are small woodcut-style diagrams: a celestial sphere with meridian and horizon rings, and a dense astronomical circle of signs and degree scales, offering designers early cartographic and astronomical instrument geometry.
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