Hermès Cosmographia Universalis ScarfMap of the Universe. Circa 2019 Herms. Artist Jan Bajtlik. Hermes writes: Sebastian Mnster was a cartographer, historian, astronomer, mathematician and scholar of Hebrew. His work, Cosmographia Universalis, was first published in Germany in 1544 and became one of the most widely read books of the 16th century. When Jan Bajtlik discovered an original edition of the book in a library in Poland, he was fascinated by its vision of a world made up of myths