Europae Tabula IX

Ruscelli Girolamo ( 1518 - 1566 ) Venice

Published by Artist: Ruscelli Girolamo ( - 1566 ) Venice issued in: Venice; - Girolamo Ruscelli (1518-1566) was an Italian polymath humanist editor and cartographer active in Venice during the early 16th century Ruscelli is best known for his important revision of Ptolemy's Geographia which was published post humously in 1574 It is generally assumed that Alexius Pedemontanus was a pseudonym of Girolamo Ruscelli In a later work Ruscelli reported that the Secreti contained the experimental results of an ?Academy of Secrets? that he and a group of humanists and noblemen founded in Naples in the 1540s Ruscelli?s academy is the first recorded example of an experimental scientific society The academy was later imitated by Giambattista Della Porta who founded, 1518

Technic: Copper print, colorit: original colored, condition: Perfect condition, size (in cm): 18 x 24 cm cm; - Map shows Rumania, Bulgaria, Mazzedonia, Dalmatia and Serbia. Seller Inventory # EUR2702_500

Bibliographic Details

Title: Europae Tabula IX
Publisher: Artist: Ruscelli Girolamo ( - 1566 ) Venice issued in: Venice; - Girolamo Ruscelli (1518-1566) was an Italian polymath humanist editor and cartographer active in Venice during the early 16th century Ruscelli is best known for his important revision of Ptolemy's Geographia which was published post humously in 1574 It is generally assumed that Alexius Pedemontanus was a pseudonym of Girolamo Ruscelli In a later work Ruscelli reported that the Secreti contained the experimental results of an ?Academy of Secrets? that he and a group of humanists and noblemen founded in Naples in the 1540s Ruscelli?s academy is the first recorded example of an experimental scientific society The academy was later imitated by Giambattista Della Porta who founded
Publication Date: 1518