Magini, Giovanni Antonio

Mapmakers of the Historic Lithuanian Area: M Studied medicine, mathematics, astronomy and philosophy at the University of Bologna, where he became Professor of Astronomy. Colleague of Ortelius, Tycho Brahe, Gallileo and Johannes Kepler. His most important work was the first printed map of Italy, based on maps by Gastaldi, and published posthumously by his son, Fabio – its maps were later used by Blaeu and Ortelius, among others. He edited a new edition of Ptolemy’s “Geographica” Venice, 1596, with later editions to 1621. The maps were drawn by Girolamo Porro, and included a reduced version of Mercator’s atlas. He also edited the atlas to “Geographiae Universae” Cologne, 1597, and “Moderne tavola di Geografia” Venice, 1597–1598.