BT3.187.1(1) / en A Changing World: Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia from 1544—BT3.187.1(2) /node/2342 A Changing World: Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia from 1544—BT3.187.1(2) William Shire Issue number (2021): 16 Notes category Library Antiquarian BT3.187.1(2) Sebastian Münster John Owen Library Benefactors' Book BT3.187.1(1) Albert Krantz Benefaction Book

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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