Altera Generalis Tab Secundum Ptol

Early woodcut map of the world according to Ptolemy by the German cartographer Sebastian Münster, depicting Europe, North Africa and Asia shown joined to a great southern continent named ‘Terra Incognita Secundum Protemeum’. Surrounding the map are decorative clouds and personified depictions of the twelve winds of the wind-system proposed by Aristotle with their names appearing in banners. A Professor of Hebrew at Basel University and an eminent mathematician and geographer, Münster first issued his first edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia in 1540.