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Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio
For nearly sixty years, during the most important and exciting period in the history of modern map making, Gerard Mercator was the supreme cartographer, his name, second only to Ptolemy, synonymous with forms of map projection still in use today. Although not the inventor of this type of projection, he was the first to apply it to navigational charts in such a form that compass bearing could be plotted on charts in straight lines, thereby providing seamen with a solution to an age-old problem of navigation at sea. Mercator's monumental world map of 1569, which survives today in only three copies, was his major statement propounding the use of such a projection, and demonstrating how it might be drafted. The influence of his revolutionary ideas as illustrated by that map transformed land surveying, and his research and calculations led him to break away from Ptolemy's conception of the size and outline of the continents. This drastically reduced the longitudinal length of Europe and Asia and altered the shape of the Old World as visualized in the early sixteenth century. Unlike the work of Abraham Ortelius, a contemporary (and equally celebrated) cartographer, Mercator's maps are original. Ortelius did what most of the atlas-makers of our time are engaged in: the reduction and generalization of already existing maps. Gerard Mercator, with his sense that scientific work should be original and new, checked the current knowledge of the earth's topography against its fundamental sources and drew maps in an original manner.
Cartographer
Cartographer
Cartographer
Cartographer
maps (documents)
historical maps
1587
1587
The Abstract/Description provided for this map is taken from an accompanying gallery schedule.
Double Hemisphere Maps
Double Hemisphere Maps
World maps
Mercator projection (Cartography)
Western Hemisphere
Eastern Hemisphere
World maps
Mercator projection (Cartography)
Western Hemisphere
Eastern Hemisphere
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Double Hemisphere Maps
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio
Early American and European Maps
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio
orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio
1587/01/01
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio
1587
Double Hemisphere Maps
World maps
Mercator projection (Cartography)
Western Hemisphere
Eastern Hemisphere
Mercator, Gerhard
Mercator, Rumold
Mercator, Gerhard
Mercator, Rumold
Mercator, Gerhard
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