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Last Name Ruysch

Given Name Johannes

alt. Names J. R. ; Johann Ruych / Giovanni‏ Ruisch / Ioan Ruysch / 约翰内斯·鲁伊希 ;

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Year born 1460 c. in Utrecht, nowadays Netherlands

Year died 1533

Place of death Cologne, Rhineland

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Education accompanied John Cabot on expedition to North America 1497 ; in c. 1505, R. entered Benedictine monastery St. Martin in Cologne as secular priest

Country of Activity Netherlands

Worked for Ruysch's Map of the World, incl. in the 1507 & 1508 southern editions of Ptolemy's Geographia ; Evangelista Tosinus (ed.): Atlas (Rome 1507) ; Mappemonde de Ruych (1508) ;

Patronage

Collaborators printer Bernardinus Venetus de Vitalibus, Rome ;

Techniques geographical drawing and cartographic map-making ;

Sample(s) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Ruysch#/media/File:Ruysch_map.jpg ; www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/Ren/Ren1/313C.html

Archival sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Ruysch ;

Published sources Donald L. McGuirk Jr.: Ruysch World Map: Census & Commentary, in: Imago Mundi 41 (1989): 133-41 ; Lubrich 2014: 746 & 793 ;

other Dutch explorer, cartographer, astronomer, manuscript illustrator, and painter from the Low Countries who was active in Germany, too.

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