Sebastian Münster, German scholar, cartographer, and cosmographer (d. 1552)
Sebastian Münster (20 January 1488 – 26 May 1552) was a German cartographer, cosmographer, and a Christian Hebraist scholar.
His work, the Cosmographia from 1544, was the earliest German description of the world.
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Cape of Good Hope
Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.