Globemaker's Toolbox

This new volume, and accompanying special microsite, is the first volume in the English language to give context to the extraordinary life and seminal work of mathematician and scientist Johannes Schöner (d. 1543). The Schöner Sammelband, his collection of maps and notes, includes the original World Maps made by Martin Waldseemüller, a star chart by Albrecht Dürer and a set of celestial globe gores of Schöner’s design. 176 pages, 9" x 7.5"