Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (died 1547)

Johannes Schöner

German priest, mathematician, cosmographer and globe maker

Johannes Schöner was a German polymath. It is best to refer to him using the usual 16th-century Latin term "mathematicus", as the areas of study to which he devoted his life were very different from those now considered to be the domain of the mathematician. He was a priest,…