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Regional European Mapping |
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Paul
Pfinzing, Region of Nuremberg, c. 1595
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here show another example of Pfinzing’s work, choosing it chiefly because of
its extraordinary rarety; only two other copies are known. This time he shows
the little town of Hersbruck on the Pegnitz river, setting it into its
topographic background. It was with maps at this scale, and with much this
degree of detail, that Europe came to be mapped during the first half of the
eighteenth century.
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