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Johann Homann

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Johann Baptist Homann (20 March 1664 – 1 July 1724) was a German geographer and cartographer, who also made maps of the Americas. [1]

21 relations: Americas, Berlin, Cartography, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Christoph Weigel the Elder, Civil law notary, Copper, DjVu, Electorate of Bavaria, Engraving, Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Geographer, Germany, Holy Roman Emperor, Kammlach, Latin, Printing patent, Protestantism, Prussian Academy of Sciences, Siebmachers Wappenbuch, Society of Jesus.

Americas

The Americas (also collectively called America)"America." The Oxford Companion to the English Language.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

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Cartography

Cartography (from Greek χάρτης chartēs, "papyrus, sheet of paper, map"; and γράφειν graphein, "write") is the study and practice of making maps.

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Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles VI (1 October 1685 – 20 October 1740; Karl VI.) succeeded his elder brother, Joseph I, as Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (as Charles II), King of Hungary and Croatia, Serbia and Archduke of Austria (as Charles III) in 1711.

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Christoph Weigel the Elder

Johann Christoph Weigel, known as Christoph Weigel the Elder (9 November 1654 – 5 February 1725), was a German engraver, art dealer and publisher.

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Civil law notary

Civil-law notaries, or Latin notaries, are agents of noncontentious private civil law who draft, take, and record instruments for private parties and are vested as public officers with the authentication power of the State.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.

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DjVu

DjVu (like English "déjà vu") is a computer file format designed primarily to store scanned documents, especially those containing a combination of text, line drawings, indexed color images, and photographs.

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Electorate of Bavaria

The Electorate of Bavaria (Kurfürstentum Bayern) was an independent hereditary electorate of the Holy Roman Empire from 1623 to 1806, when it was succeeded by the Kingdom of Bavaria.

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Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it.

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Free Imperial City of Nuremberg

The Imperial City of Nuremberg (Reichsstadt Nürnberg) was a free imperial city — independent city-state — within the Holy Roman Empire.

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Geographer

A geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Holy Roman Emperor

The Holy Roman Emperor (historically Romanorum Imperator, "Emperor of the Romans") was the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire (800-1806 AD, from Charlemagne to Francis II).

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Kammlach

Kammlach is a municipality in the district of Unterallgäu in Bavaria, Germany.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Printing patent

The printing patent or printing privilege was a precursor of modern copyright.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively more than 900 million adherents worldwide or nearly 40% of all Christians.

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Prussian Academy of Sciences

The Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften) was an academy established in Berlin, Germany on 11 July 1700, four years after the Akademie der Künste, or "Arts Academy," to which "Berlin Academy" may also refer.

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Siebmachers Wappenbuch

Siebmachers Wappenbuch is a roll of arms first published in 1605 as two heraldic multivolume book series of armorial bearings or coats of arms of the nobility of the Holy Roman Empire, as well as coats of arms of city states and some burgher families.

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Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus (SJ – from Societas Iesu) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.

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Homann heirs, Homanniani Heredes, Homannianis Heredes, Johann Baptist Homann.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Homann

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