From 1514 or 1515, [Sebastian] Munster deepened and broadened his knowledge of mathematical geography and cartography. In 1524 he was appointed to teach the Hebrew language at the University of Heidelberg; this appointment was ill paid, and it was evidently with no reluctance that Munster accepted an invitation to the chair of Hebrew at the university of Basel, whither he moved in 1529 [and] was to spend the rest of his life until his death from plague in 1552.

Having completed the Geographia, Munster returned to his pet project, the description of Germany. In 1544, he published the first edition of the Cosmographia, a summary both of Munster’s own geographical researches and those of his many correspondents. For the 1550 edition additions included a large number of town prospects.

The 1550 edition of the Cosmographia was the final flowering of Munster’s work.

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By Sebastian Münster in Cosmographia 1550 via Hominis Aevum.