Continentem Noviter Detectam Componebat Ioanne Baptista Nicolosio S.T.D.
| Reference: | MS5071 |
| Author | Giovanni Battista NICOLOSI |
| Year: | 1660 ca. |
| Zone: | The World |
| Printed: | Paris |
| Measures: | - x - mm |
| Reference: | MS5071 |
| Author | Giovanni Battista NICOLOSI |
| Year: | 1660 ca. |
| Zone: | The World |
| Printed: | Paris |
| Measures: | - x - mm |
Description
Interestings and importants Western and Eastern Hemispheres maps, who copied the cartographical details of Sanson.
The Colleggio di Propaganda da Fide commissioned the cartographer Giovanni Nicolosi (1610/70) the realization of an atlas in 1652.
Nicolosi was not only a famous and estimated priest and Vatican functionary, but was also a well known cartographer and writer. He admired Galileo event though, due to his profession, he dissociated himself from his theories, sticking with the Church and its Ptolemaic vision of the world.
As a result, he published in 1660 his Dell'Ercole e Studio geografico. A second edition of his work was printed in Rome by Mascardi in 1670/71 with the title of Hercules Siculus Sive Studium Geographicum, containing geographic maps of the world and the continents.
Two sheets of 470x530 mm.
Giovanni Battista NICOLOSI (Paternò 1610-Roma 1670)
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Sicilian geographer, but also priest and writer. His principal work is Dell’Hercule e Studio Geografico, made in 1660. An important work showing the role a cartographic priest obedient to Church’s dictates, but fascinated also, at the same time, by the new discovers and conceptions of Galileo whom he was a great admirer for.
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Giovanni Battista NICOLOSI (Paternò 1610-Roma 1670)
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Sicilian geographer, but also priest and writer. His principal work is Dell’Hercule e Studio Geografico, made in 1660. An important work showing the role a cartographic priest obedient to Church’s dictates, but fascinated also, at the same time, by the new discovers and conceptions of Galileo whom he was a great admirer for.
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