Creator Bio
George Braun
1542–1622
Georg Braun (also known as Brunus) was a German topographer. Born in Cologne, Germany, he was a Catholic cleric and the principal editor of a book of town plans and views, the six-volume Civitates Orbis Terrarum, published between 1572 and 1617, which set new standards for cartography.
Content by George Braun
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Map of Jerusalem
In this seventeenth-century map, Jerusalem is depicted as a fairly dense city within a wall, with only a few structures outside. Men in Arab dress stand in small groups conversing with one another in…
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