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Henricus Martellus Germanus (fl. 1480–1496) was a German cartographer active in Florence between 1480 and 1496. His surviving cartographic work includes manuscripts of Ptolemy's Geographia , manuscripts of Insularium illustratum (a descriptive atlas of island maps), and two world maps which were the first to show a passage around the southern ...
Henricus Martellus Germanus (Germany, fl. 1480–1496) Donnus Nicholas Germanus (Germany, fl. 1460–1475) Fra Mauro (Venice, c. 1459) Piri Reis (Dardanelles, Ottoman Empire, 1465–1554/1555), author of the Kitab-ı Bahriye; Johannes Ruysch (Netherlands, c. 1466–1530), explorer, cartographer, astronomer, manuscript illustrator and painter
Martellus world map (1490) The world map of Henricus Martellus Germanus (Heinrich Hammer), c. 1490, was remarkably similar to the terrestrial globe later produced by Martin Behaim in 1492, the Erdapfel. Both show heavy influences from Ptolemy, and both possibly derive from maps created around 1485 in Lisbon by Bartolomeo Columbus. Although ...
Henricus Martellus Germanus also adopted the trapezoid projection in 1480 for his manuscript version of Geographia. The second recension (1466 to 1468) includes the twenty-seven tabulae antiquae and three new maps (tabulae modernae) covering northern Europe, Spain and France.
Guided by Ptolemy, the discoverers of the New World were initially trying to find their way to Cattigara. On the 1489 map of the world made by Henricus Martellus Germanus, revising Ptolemy's work, Asia terminated in its southeastern point in a cape, the Cape of Cattigara.
Most of his work (including two maps) is lost, but a copy has been preserved through the German cartographers Donnus Nicholas Germanus and Henricus Martellus Germanus, and in the nineteenth century more texts were rediscovered in the imperial library at Vienna. He drew 27 maps for a copy of the Geography by Ptolemy (see image).
Martellus is a given name. Notable people with the name include: Notable people with the name include: Henricus Martellus Germanus ( fl. 1480–1496), German geographer and cartographer
Germanus (patricius) (died 605/606), leading senator in the reign of Emperor Maurice; Germanus of Granfelden (612–675), saint; Germanus I, Patriarch of Bulgaria (972–990) Germanus of Winchester (died c. 1013) English abbot; Henricus Martellus Germanus, 15th-century cartographer; Moses Germanus or Johann Peter Spaeth (died 1701), a German ...