Mercator 1569 world map
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The Mercator world map of 1569 is titled Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendate Accommodata. The title shows that Gerardus Mercator aimed to present contemporary knowledge
Gerardus Mercator 1512–1594
Claudius Ptolemy 1482
Cantino c. 1502 (Padrão Real)
Pietro Coppo 1520
Gerardus Mercator
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Gerardus Mercator 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 b
1574 portrait by Hogenberg; translation
Rupelmonde, now in Belgium, from Flandria illustrata, 1641
The playwright and teacher Georgius Macropedius
Antoine Perrenot