Gerardus Mercator World Map

Gerardus Mercator World Map. Mercator 1569 world map detail Gulf Stock Photo Alamy Mercator's 1569 map of the world, the first to feature his famous projection. It was printed in eighteen separate sheets from copper plates engraved by Mercator himself

Mercator's 1569 map was a large planisphere, [3] i.e It was printed in eighteen separate sheets from copper plates engraved by Mercator himself

"Atlas de Gerardus Mercator', 1595, mapa del Ártico en el Polo Norte y

[4] Each sheet measures 33×40 cm and, with a border of 2 cm, the complete map measures 202×124 cm. In this nautical planisphere, parallels and meridians form a regular mesh of rectangles where the spacing between adjacent parallels. 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's map of the North Pole, 1623 Antique World Map, Old. The Mercator world map of 1569 is titled Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendate Accommodata (Renaissance Latin for "New and more complete representation of the terrestrial globe properly adapted for use in navigation") 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.

Mercator projection Definition, Uses, & Limitations Britannica. 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).