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One of the most significant compilations of cartographic materials in the long history of mapping was discovered in 1901 by the Jesuit historian Father Josef Fischer in the library of Prince Johannes Waldburg-Wolfegg at the Castle of Wolfegg, in Württemberg, Germany. The volume, now known as the “Schöner Sammelband”, was compiled sometime after 1516 and contained the only surviving copies of Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 Universalis cosmographiae, his 1516 Carta Marina and the first printed celestial globe gores by the mathematician, alchemist, and globe–maker Johannes Schöner (1477–1547). Also included in the original volume was a heavily annotated copy of a star chart of the Southern Hemisphere produced by Albrecht Dürer in 1515. Now removed, the Dürer star chart remains in the collections of Wolfegg Castle.
