Johannes Stabius

After its introduction by Werner in his 1514 book, Nova translatio primi libri geographiaae C. Ptolemaei, the Werner projection was commonly used for world maps and some continental maps through the 16th century and into the 17th century.

It was used by Mercator, Oronce Fine, and Ortelius in the late 16th century for maps of Asia and Africa.

[1] In 1515 Dürer and Johannes Stabius created the first world map projected on a solid geometric sphere.

On an "imaginary orb", they created a perspective view of the surface geography of the world.

This circle included the scholars Georg Tannstetter, Stiborius, Thomas Resch, Stefan Rosinus, Johannes Cuspinianus, and the reformer Joachim Vadianus.

The Northern Hemisphere of the Celestial Globe, created by Albrecht Dürer under the direction of Stabius and Konrad Heinfogel