Heinrich Zell was a German

Germans

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 printer

Printer (publisher)

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 and cartographer. He was a student of Sebastian Münster

Sebastian Münster

Sebastian Münster , was a German cartographer, cosmographer, and a Hebrew scholar.- Life :Münster was born at Ingelheim near Mainz, the son of Andreas Munster. He completed his studies at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen in 1518. His graduate adviser was Johannes Stöffler.He was appointed to...

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Accompanying Rheticus to Prussia, Heinrich Zell in collaboration with Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe....

, produced the first geostatic map of the Prussia

Prussia

Prussia was a German kingdom and historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, successfully expanding its size by way of an unusually well-organized and effective army. Prussia shaped the history...

n coastline and had the first printed map of Prussia with hundreds of towns printed in 1542. Zell incorporated Ermland (Warmia) records of Prussian towns in this detailed and until then unaccomplished task.

Works

• Heinrich Zell, Prussiae descriptio, Coloniae, 1594, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin (printed after the original from 1542 in the St. Mark's Library in Venice
  Venice
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• printed map of Brandenburg
  Brandenburg
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  , 1550

External links

• http://lazarus.elte.hu/gb/imcos97/scharfe1.htm
• http://marebalticum.natmus.dk/lokUK.asp?ID=5
• http://www.orteliusmaps.com/book/ort88.html