Antique Map of Fiesland - Fryslân - West Frisia Poster

Friesland - Cosmographia Very interesting woodblock sheet from the 1570 German edition of Sebastian Muenster's Cosmographie shows eastern Friesland ( Fryslân / West Frisia) in the Netherlands. Sebasian Muenster Sebastian Muenster was born in 1488 at Ingelheim, (Germany) and died in 1552 in Basel, (Switzerland). Muenster was the true renaissance man: historian, mathematician, geographer, and linguist. For a time he was a Franciscan Monk. After the reformation, he converted to Protestantism. He taught Hebrew at the University of Heidelberg before settling in Basel in 1529. As a cartographer, he is perhaps best known for his book the Cosmographia published in 1544 which aimed to give a comprehensive picture of the known world in the 16th Century. The background colour and border colour can be modified.