Sebastian Münster, a professor of Hebrew at Basel University who was also a geographer and mathematician, prepared an edition of the Geographia which was published in 1540.

To Ptolemy’s maps he added a geographical appendix and 48 new woodcut maps. Some alterations were made in the maps for the revised editions of Münster’s edition, published again in 1542, 1545, and 1552.

[World map from Ptolemy, Geographia, edited by Sebastian Münster. Basel:P Heinricum Petrum, 1545.
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The world map is especially attractive.

[Modern world map from Ptolemy, Geographia, edited by Sebastian Münster. Basel: Heinricum Petrum, 1545.
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In it South America is named "America seu insula Brasilii"

and North America is named "Terra Florida".

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