Johannes Stabius
Johannes Stabius (Johann Stab) (1450–1522) was an Austrian cartographer and astronomer of Vienna who developed, around 1500, the heart-shape (cordiform) projection map later developed further by Johannes Werner. It is called the Werner map projection, but also the Stabius-Werner or the Stab-Werner projection. • Illustration — The Northern Hemisphere of the Celestial Globe, created by Albrecht Dürer under the direction of Stabius and Konrad Heinfogel After its introduction by Werner in his 1514 book, Nova translatio primi libri geographiaae C. Ptolemaei, the Werner projection was commonly used for world maps and some continental maps through the 16th century and into the 17th century. It was used by Mercator, Oronce Fine, and Ortelius in the late 16th century for maps of Asia and Africa.
Johannes Stabius
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- Born
- Johannes Stabius was born, sources differ on the date (about 1460, in 1468 and in 1450).
- Died
- 1522.
- Nationality
- Germany.
- Occupation
- cartographer, geographer, writer, university teacher, naturalist, humanist, mathematician and astronomer.
- Movements
- German Renaissance.
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The Werner projection is only used today for instructional purposes and as a novelty. In 1512, Stabius published a work called the Horoscopion. He also devised a card dial. In 1515 Dürer and Johannes Stabius created the first world map projected on a solid geometric sphere. On an "imaginary orb", they created a perspective view of the surface geography of the world. In 1515, Stabius (who also acted as the court astronomer), Dürer and the astronomer Konrad Heinfogel produced the first planispheres of both southern and northerns hemispheres, also the first printed celestial maps. These maps prompted the revival of interest in the field of uranometry throughout Europe. Stabius often acted as Dürer's and Maximilian's go-between for their financial problems. Stabius was a member of a circle of humanists based in Vienna. This circle included the scholars Georg Tannstetter, Stiborius, Thomas Resch, Stefan Rosinus, Johannes Cuspinianus, and the reformer Joachim Vadianus. These humanists were associated with the court of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
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Johannes Stabius (1468 – 1 January 1522) was a humanist, writer, mathematician, geographer and astronomer. Johannes Stabius was born in 1468 and died on 1 January 1522. The birthplace of Johannes Stabius is recorded as Steyr by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and as Hueb-bei-Steyr, Autriche by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Johannes Stabius died in Graz, Austria, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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1460
Johannes Stabius was born in 1460.
1522
Johannes Stabius died at Graz.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1201127947, Bildnis eines Mannes (wahrscheinlich Johannes Stabius).
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- 1.Hg. und übersetzt in Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer: Humanismus zwischen Hof und Universität. Georg Tannstetter (Collimitius) und sein wissenschaftliches Umfeld im Wien des frühen 16. Jahrhunderts. Wien 1996, S. 156–171 (dort S. 164 f.).
- 2.Die Reichenauer Handschriften, beschrieben und erl. von Alfred Holder. Fortgeführt von Karl Preisendanz, Bd. 3, Karlsruhe 1918 (Die Handschriften der Grossherzoglich Badischen Hof- und Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe 7), S. 92.
- 3.Astronomie in Nürnberg. Die Weltkarte von Dürer und Stabius von 1515, abgerufen am 10. Dezember 2013
- 4.Astronomie in Nürnberg. Die Sternkarten von Albrecht Dürer von 1515, abgerufen am 10. Dezember 2013
- 5.Astronomie in Nürnberg. Steckbrief von Konrad Heinfogel, abgerufen am 10. Dezember 2013
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