This new volume, and accompanying special microsite, is the first volume in the English language to give context to the extraordinary life and seminal work of mathematician and scientist Johannes Schner (d. 1543). The Schner Sammelband, his collection of maps and notes, includes the original World Maps made by Martin Waldseemller, a star chart by Albrecht Drer and a set of celestial globe gores of Schners design. 176 pages, 9" x 7.5"