SYRLIN, Jörg the Elder
(b. 1420s, Ulm, d. 1481, Ulm)

Ptolemy

1469-74
Oak
Münster, Ulm

The picture shows the bust of Ptolemy on the choir stalls. Ptolemy, the second-century Alexandrian mathematician known as the father of cartography, holds a compass and a model of the globe marked with longitude and latitude. His calm demeanour beautifully accents his intellectual insights.




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