Gerardus Mercator World Map

Gerardus Mercator World Map. 4 Gerardus Mercator, world map, 1569. Alvesgaspar/Wikimedia Commons Reproduced from Copy (in Nordenskjold's Facsimile Atlas, Stockholm, 1889, Pl a projection of the spherical Earth onto the plane

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a projection of the spherical Earth onto the plane It was printed in eighteen separate sheets from copper plates engraved by Mercator himself

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a projection of the spherical Earth onto the plane His most famous work, the Mercator projection, is a geographical chart where the spherical globe is flattened into a two-dimensional map, with latitude and longitude lines drawn in a straight grid. Mercator's first independent work as a cartographer was the map of Palestine in 1537, which was followed by the map of the world (1538) and a map of Flanders (1540).

4 Gerard Mercator, World Map (1538), reengraved by Antonio Salamanca. Reproduced from Copy (in Nordenskjold's Facsimile Atlas, Stockholm, 1889, Pl The title shows that Gerardus Mercator aimed to present contemporary knowledge of the geography of the world and at the same time 'correct' the.

Gerardus mercator map hires stock photography and images Alamy. Historical Map Showing European Occupation in the Year 1597-1803 In this nautical planisphere, parallels and meridians form a regular mesh of rectangles where the spacing between adjacent parallels.