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Antique map by MERCATOR,G./ HONDIUS,J.-Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes.
The Fleming Gerard Mercator(1512-1594)is rightfully regarded
The Fleming Gerard Mercator(1512-1594)is rightfully regarded
as the most important scientific cartographer of the Renaissance.
With two contemporaries, the geographer Abraham Ortelius and the printer
and publisher Christoffel Plantijn,he is considered the father
of commercial cartography in the Netherlands.
Even during his lifetime his maps, globes and atlases found their way all over the world.
Mercator established his reputation mainly through his new projection method.
The meridians and parallels are positioned at right angles to each other.
If the distances between the meridians are equal, they progressively become larger
between the parallels from the equator to the poles.This is why the latitude
becomes wider the closer you get to one of the poles and
why the part of the Earth in the upper latitudes exhibits excessive proportions.
The advantage of this method was the far greater degree of certainty
and accuracy in determining shipping routes.In 1585, Mercator published
the first three parts
of his own book of maps in one volume,which he called Atlas.
The second edition appeared in 1589, with the addition of a fourth part.
The first complete edition was compiled by his heirs
in 1595 one year after his death.Walter Ghim,mayor of Duisburg
the city where Mercator had lived for a long time,wrote the accompanying Mercator biography.
It was the first time that a book of maps
was referred to as an Atlas.Commercially speaking,however,
the Atlas was not a success thanks to formidable competition from
the Theatrum orbis terrarum by Abraham Ortelius,published
in 1570,which by the end of the century had been reprinted more than twenty times.
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