Augustin Hirschvogel is remembered for reaching places that the written record had not yet described.
The record lists Augustin Hirschvogel as 16th century German artist, mathematician, and cartographer (1503-1553).
Augustin Hirschvogel was born at Nuremberg in 1503. His recorded nationality is Germany.
The Age of Discovery was driven by Iberian crowns, the caravel and the search for a sea route to the spice trade - and it opened the Atlantic world with consequences its sailors never intended.
He is recorded as mathematician, cartographer and painter.
What an expedition is remembered for is rarely what it set out to do.
Augustin Hirschvogel died in 1553, aged 50. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as mathematician, cartographer and painter
