Hartmann Schedel
Hartmann Schedel (
February 13,
1440 -
November 28,
1514), was a German
humanist and
historian, one of the first
cartographers to make use of the
printing press. He was born in
Nuremberg.
Many of the maps in his "
Schedelsche Welt Chronik" (Schedel's World Chronicle, also known as Nuremberg Chronicle) show cities and countries illustrated for the first time ever.
The
World Chronicle was published
1493 in
Nuremberg and is therefore an
incunabulum.
With the recent establishment of the printing press by
Johann Gutenberg it rapidly became feasible to print books and maps for a larger customer basis, whereas earlier books had been extremely rare, due to them having to be handwritten.
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