page_title: Girolamo Ruscelli
hierarchical_section_title: Girolamo Ruscelli
caption_attribution_description: MAVRITANIA NVOVA TAVOLA, from Italian translation of Ptolemy's Atlas “La Geograpfia Di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, Nouvamente Tradatta Di Greco in Italiano”. Published in 1575 in Latin and Italian. 17.5 x 23.9 cm. On sheet 22 X 32.1 cm.
context_page_description: Girolamo Ruscelli was an Italian mathematician and cartographer active in Venice during the early 16th century. He was also an alchemist, writing pseudonymously as Alessio Piemontese.
context_section_description: Girolamo Ruscelli (1518–1566) was an Italian mathematician and cartographer active in Venice during the early 16th century. He was also an alchemist, writing pseudonymously as Alessio Piemontese.
caption: 1561 map of West Africa by Girolamo Ruscelli
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