Title | The story of Nuremberg |
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Publisher | J. M. Dent & Co. |
Date | 1899 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 303 pages; 18 cm |
Original Item Location | DD901.N93 H4 1899 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1684865~S11 |
Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
Identifier | exotic_201304_001 |
Title | Page 59 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_001_070.jpg |
Transcript | Nuremberg and the Reformat* giving the greatest examples ot them the added charm of locality. Their ! encc was no less genuine than then love ot i,a few weeks after the birth of Albert Durer, Johannes Muller, (surnamed ntanui in allusion to Konigsberg, his native \ illage) th( wonde <>n," took up his abode at Nuremberg, making I me of physical and mathematic o her reputation as "the capital of Ge: , the most precious jewel of the of art and industry." g for my place of re , "because there I find without difficulty .ill the peculiar instruments necessary for astronomy, and there it is easiest for me to keep in touch with the learned of all count Miremberg, thanks to the perpetual journeyings of her merchants, may be counted the centre of Kurope." Inspired Iget desire to know -g, so chai Sge, he was equally desirous to impart his knowledge. We ma. 0 his intluence Durer's book d his beautiful chart ot" the heavens. Muller introduced popular sci> tad organised the manutactuie |] instruments, pupil was Martin B the constructor ot tlu brat globe and the adventurous . Rfhoae monument ( iSyo) may be seen in the- >n his trial globe the years later by Vasco di (ianu when he doubled the Cape of Good (too, who iu Magellan the first I l>ears his name. Behaim' House, which is in the JEgj to the FK Ntatuc of Melanchthon (by Burgschmut, 1.^26). |