A fine view of Zurich, Switzerland, from Sebastian Munster's Cosmographia Universalis. Munster was a renowned hebraist and geographer. The Cosmographia was first published in 1544 just four years after his first publication of Ptolemy's Geographia. It was a large compendium of topographical information which was consistently expanded during its lifetime. Later publication of the Cosmographia was by his step-son Heinrich Petri. Burmeister; Oehme Introduction to the Facsimile of the 1550 Edition of Munster's Cosmographia; Shirley Atlases in the BL T.Mun 1a.