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Gerardus Mercator (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ r ɑːr d ə s m ɜːr ˈ k eɪ t ər /; [a] [b] [c] 5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) [d] was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer.He is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing (rhumb lines) as straight lines—an innovation that is still employed in nautical charts.
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The north polar regions as portrayed in the 1595 atlas. The bizarre representation of the geography of the north polar regions in the inset is discussed in detail in Legend 6 and in the minor texts of sheet 13. Mercator uses as his reference a fourteenth-century English friar and mathematician who used an astrolabe to survey the septentrional ...
Frontispiece of the 1595 Atlas of Mercator. An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or of a continent or region of Earth.. Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today, many atlases are in multimedia formats.
English: Cropping of a plate from Gerardus Mercator's Atlas Cosmographicae (1595) showing the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen ("Stift Bremen", in yellow) on the west bank of the Elbe River. In the late 16th century when this map was drawn, the Prince-Archbishopric was ruled by Protestants administrators.
However, Lafreri did not use the word "Atlas" in the title of his work; this was an innovation of Gerardus Mercator, who named his work Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati (1585–1595), [40] using the word Atlas as a dedication specifically to honor the Titan Atlas, in his capacity as King of Mauretania, a ...
Gerardus Mercator's 1595 map from the Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra showing "S. Matheo" Jan Huygen van Linschoten's 1596 map showing "I. de S. Matheus" James Rennel's 1799 map showing "S. Matthew"
The stereographic projection was exclusively used for star charts until 1507, when Walther Ludd of St. Dié, Lorraine created the first known instance of a stereographic projection of the Earth's surface. Its popularity in cartography increased after Rumold Mercator used its equatorial aspect for his 1595 atlas. [1]