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Sebastian-Münster-BrunnenSebastian Münster FountainIngelheim 1488 - Basel 1552German cartographer, cosmographer, and a Hebrew scholar. His Cosmographia (1544, was the earliest German description of the world (Wikipedia) |
Michael Schoenholtz
1978 |
 
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Sebastian-Münster-Brunnen von Michael Schoenholtz, Berlin, 1978
Dem Brunnen auf diesem Platz liegt der Gedanke zugrunde, hier
die
Der Brunnen ist vor allem dem Kosmographen Münster
gewidmet. |
Sebastian Münster Fountain by Michael Schoenholtz, Berlin, 1978 The idea for the well on this place is to commemorate to the humanistic savant Sebastian Münster (1488/89 - 1552). At this place there was the monastery of the Order of St. Francis in former times. Münster teached Hebrew and investigated problems of mathematics and astronomy in the period 1521 up to 1529. Here he started his work on describing the world which made him wellknown. The well is primarily devoted to the cosmographer Münster. It presents the surveyed terrestrial globe lifted out from the symbolized planetary orbits. On the Earth there are several persons in different situations, positions and actions determining their lifes: Birth and death, technical progress in its positive sense but also destroying manner as well as the acceptance and rejection of worldly circumstances. |
NB: we haven't seen the sign and took text and translation from Wolfgang Volk's site.
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