#cosmographia

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Fantastic beasts from Munster’s Cosmographia originally published in the 16th century

Published in 1544 there were many German language editions all slightly different - last published thus 1625

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Professor Randall is my favorite gringo.

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Cosmographia Beast N

"A gruesome beast, partly resembling a rhinoceros. Pointed at the nose and the back, eats large crabs called lobsters, is twelve feet long."

-Sebastian Münster

I based my interpretation as a mixture of sea lions, rhinos, & sharks. I used the text more than the drawing in the book to create something that isn't just a copy. Also was a practice on hatching & texturing with just black. R.I.P my wrist though (worth it).

[historysurvivalguide]

“Around which the point of fire fastens the top of the immovable world”

These words are a rough and partial translation from this beautiful book and describe how the pole star (Polaris) remains fixed at a point in the sky that the rest of the stars rotate around

This beautiful page is taken from the Cosmographia, originally published in the 1500’s

This page caught my attention for this image in particular

The title reads “Prima Pars Cosmo: Instrumentum Theoricae Solis, Aux Solis” which roughly translates to “The First Part of the Cosmos: A Theoretical Instrument of the Sun (to the sun)”

This image shows many of the features that are used to track the sun or calculate information about the sun. The outer rings are calendars and describe the relative position of the sun in the constellations during different months of the year. The inner two diagrams are method to calculate unequal hours (used to determine the number of daylight hours for a day during the year) and a shadow square (used to determine the height of celestial objects like the sun)

This collections of features are a common astronomical features used on the back of an astrolabe

This design choice matches an 18th Century Arabic North African astrolabe

The back contains 6 scales of the following types: Altitude; Zodiacal signs; Calendar; Unequal hours; Shadow square. The back is inscribed: with a miscellaneous marked as الحمد لله هذا الأسطرلاب حبس على المسجد الأعظم من ثغر طنجة علاه الله بمنه آمين (Praise be to God. This astrolabe was given as a bequest to the Grand Mosque of the port of Tangiers, may God elevate it with His grace. Amen)

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عندما يُلخِّص لك تشات جي بي تي نصًّا فإنه في الحقيقة لا يُلخِّصه ولا هم يحزنون

ما هذه المجموعة من المختارات تسألني؟ إنّها عددٌ من أعداد نشرة “صيد الشابكة” اِعرف أكثر عن النشرة هنا: ما هي نشرة “صيد الشابكة” ما مصادرها، وما غرضها؛ وما معنى الشابكة أصلًا؟! 🎣🌐تعرف ما هي صيد الشابكة وتطالعها بانتظام؟ اِدعم استمرارية النشرة بطرق شتى من هنا: 💲 طرق دعم نشرة صيد الشابكة. 🎣🌐 صيد الشابكة العدد #120 🎣🌐 صيد الشابكة العدد #120✨ مُبشِّر🥫🧠 طعام الفكر🕋 القرآن الكريم هو المنقذ الذي وَحَّد…

[a-book-of-creatures]

AAAAAAAAAA

Detail from Cosmographia Universalis et Exactissima by Giovanni Francesco Camocio, 1569.

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[readingloveswounds]

i will not and truly cannot learn greek just for one singular paper that isnt even really in my research area

[nemfrog]

Multi-headed dragons with snake-like bodies. Cosmographiae uniuersalis lib. VI. 1550.

Internet Archive

[heavenlybackside]

The Da Vinci Globe, dated 1504, is the oldest known globe to show the New World. Engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined lower halves of ostrich eggs.

If the first map to represent the American continent is that of Juan de la Cosa, made in the year 1500, and the first in which the name America appears to identify it is the so-called Universalis Cosmographia of Martin Waldseemüller, of 1507, the first globe that showed the New World was created by none other than Leonardo da Vinci in 1504.

The globe is made with two bottom halves of ostrich eggshell joined together, and with a calcium counterweight placed inside the bottom one (glued with egg white) to keep the globe upright. It has a diameter of 11.2 centimeters and weighs just 134 grams. The map depicted includes drawings of ships, a volcano, sailors, a monster, waves, conical mountains, rivers and other elements and place names.

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Novae Insulae Nova Tabulafrom Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster, 1544.

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Murder and cannibalism 16th century illustrations from Munster’s Cosmographia

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From Cosmographia ("Cosmography") from 1544 by Sebastian Münster

[a-study-in-dante]

October 6th, 2023 | Graecum est, non legitur... especially when the translation's in German 🥲 It'd been a while since I last went to this part of the library, and needed to see Ptolemy's Cosmographia. It's no Pembroke library but it will have to do!

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Me and @jakerybagels improved a vid about Midwich Valley, in which our 2 idiot characters Oni Giri and Samson try to recap the events (as seen in Cosmographia's entries) thus far. Poorly.

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Rapid deceleration and the sound of the Impala’s tires switching from pavement to gravel caught Sam’s attention and pulled him out of his studying of a rare 1559 edition of Münster’s Cosmographia that they were taking back to Bobby. He looked around but there was nothing much to see, just darkness and shadowy trees out the windows. 

“You gotta take a leak or something?” he asked.

“Or something.” Dean replied.

Sam shook his head, “Man, I told you that burrito wasn’t a good idea. You better hope that roll of toilet paper is still in the trunk. If not, remember: leaves of three, let it be.”

“Not that kind of something.”

The car pulled to a stop, headlights reflecting off a hand-painted sign nailed to an old fence post. 

DO NOT FUCK HERE

Sam stared at it for a moment, taking in the crude simplicity of both the lettering and the message.

“How did you even know this was here?”

“I saw it on the drive out.”

They sat there in the dark for a long moment before the sound of the car’s idling engine suddenly cut off. Sam turned and looked at Dean who was chewing on the inside of his cheek, which pulled his lips askew and made him look like he was thinking. It was his about-to-do-something-stupid look and it triggered a lifetime of little brother paranoia. He looked from his brother to the sign and back. Dean was looking at him, a devious smile flashing in his eyes.

“What, here?”

Dean’s teeth on full display now as that smile split his face wide open.

“Really?” Sam asked, not disinterested.

Dean laughed. “I don’t know about you, but it’s a long drive and my legs could use some stretching,” and he pushed open his door with a loud squeak and climbed out of the car. Sam looked around, there was nothing and no one, no sign of anyone at all anywhere within sight.

“Come on, Sammy! It’s a gorgeous night for some blatant disregard of signage. Get those dimples out here!”

Only then did Sam realize that he was grinning like a kid. He climbed out of the car, the door closing behind him with its familiar creak and bang. Outside, the sound of crickets rose loud all around the spread of the car’s headlights where Dean was standing, brightly lit and staring at that sign.

“Grab the blanket outta the trunk,” he said as he flung the car keys at Sam.

Catching them one handed as he turned and walked to the back of the car, he returned a moment later with the old scratchy army blanket, keys safely pocketed along side the little bottle of lube Sam had fished out of Dean’s duffle.

“Hood or the ground?” Sam asked.

Dean grinned at him and pointed at his feet. “Right here.”

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