Enhanced View of the World
The “Delineation of the entire world prepared according to the teaching of Ptolemy the Cosmographer and the voyages of Americus Vespuccius,” was assembled by the astronomer Peter Bienewitz, known as “Petrus Apianus,” and printed in Vienna in 1520. Though he based his work on Ptolemaic tradition, Apianus enhanced his view of the world using information garnered on the voyages of Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci. He also gathered information from the best available maps of the period, including Waldseemüller’s 1507 world map and probably the globes of Johann Schöner.
The “Delineation of the entire world prepared according to the teaching of Ptolemy the Cosmographer and the voyages of Americus Vespuccius,” was assembled by the astronomer Peter Bienewitz, known as “Petrus Apianus,” and printed in Vienna in 1520. Though he based his work on Ptolemaic tradition, Apianus enhanced his view of the world using information garnered on the voyages of Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci. He also gathered information from the best available maps of the period, including Waldseemüller’s 1507 world map and probably the globes of Johann Schöner.