Marcus Beneventanus

Marcus Beneventanus was a medieval Italian publisher of maps and books.

Life

He was originally a Celestine monk. He later took up a career in cartography and publishing.[1][2]

Career

He was a contemporary of Johannes Ruysch and Martin Waldseemuller.[3]

Bibliography
1507 map by Marcus Beneventanus and Bernard Wapowski

Notable maps printed by him include:

Notable books printed by him include:

  • In hoc opere haec continentur Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei emẽta : & cu archetypo graeco collata. Planisphaerium Cl. Ptolemaei noviter recognitum et emendatum a Marco Monacho
  • Adversus novam marci beneventani astronomiam, quae positionem alphonsinam, de motu octavi orbis multis modis depravavit, apologia
gollark: If the ocean shipping industry magically fixed itself, this is presumably useful information for us all.
gollark: What happened?
gollark: Even an efficiency maximiser has an ethical system. Broadly speaking. A goal system, at least.
gollark: Also convenience.
gollark: I, of course, do ethical things based on averaging various philosophy-derived ethical systems, arbitrary human intuition, and a neural network thing which weakly approximates average human judgements.

References
  1. Haase, Wolfgang; Reinhold, Meyer (1 January 1994). "The Classical Tradition and the Americas: European images of the Americas and the classical tradition (2 pts.)". Walter de Gruyter – via Google Books.
  2. Manilius, Marcus; Sherburne, Sir Edward (1 January 1675). "The Sphere of Marcus Manilius Made an English Poem: With Annotations and an Astronomical Appendix". Nathanael Brooke, at the sign of the Angel in Cornhil, near the Royal exchange – via Google Books.
  3. Seaver, Kirsten A. (1 January 1996). "The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of North America, Ca. A.D. 1000-1500". Stanford University Press – via Google Books.
  4. "Old, antique Ptolemy map of Scandinavia by Marcus Beneventanus - Sanderus Antique Maps".
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