"[A] description of the whole world with all that therein is."
— Sebastian Münster

January 1, 1970

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From the preface to Cosmographia (1544), quoted in translation by C. R. Beazley, "Review of Sebastian Münster, by Viktor Hantzsch", The Geographical Journal, vol. 17, no. 4 (1901), p. 424