Sixteenth Century European Mapping of the Near East: Münster Woodcut Map of Arabia Felix, Arabia Deserta, and Syria
Münster, Sebastian. Map of Arabia, Syria, and Mesopotamia published in Cosmographia, 1598, produced by the German humanist scholar whose geographic writings helped revive and popularize world geography in Renaissance Europe. Sebastian Münster, a Hebrew scholar and cosmographer active in Basel, issued Cosmographia in 1544 as the first major German language.....
