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A Changing World: Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia from 1544—BT3.187.1(2)

William Shire
Issue number
(2021): 16

Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia (1544) may be an attempt to describe all knowledge, but this knowledge becomes less and less exact the further one travels from Münster’s German homelands. As the descriptions focus on the faraway lands of Asia and Africa, monstrous races appear. 

 

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