The German school
Essays on mapmaking in the German-speaking lands, from the Nuremberg workshops to the atlas publishers of the eighteenth century.
- The Homann firm of Nuremberg
A publishing house founded in 1702 made Nuremberg one of the main centres of map printing in the eighteenth century.
- Münster's Cosmographia
A description of the whole world, first printed in Basel in 1544, became one of the most widely read books of the century.
- Waldseemüller and the name America
A wall map printed in a small Lorraine town in 1507 was the first to put the name America on the new continent.
- Behaim's globe, Nuremberg 1492
The oldest surviving terrestrial globe was finished the year Columbus sailed, and it has no Americas on it.