Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Description: Mercator's 1595 map of the Arctic. Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594. "Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio" [1595]. First state, from his posthumously published atlas, Atlantis pars altera.
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.
English: Cropping of a plate from Gerardus Mercator's Atlas Cosmographicae (1595) showing the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen ("Stift Bremen", in yellow) on the west bank of the Elbe River. In the late 16th century when this map was drawn, the Prince-Archbishopric was ruled by Protestants administrators.
The north polar regions as portrayed in the 1595 atlas. The bizarre representation of the geography of the north polar regions in the inset is discussed in detail in Legend 6 and in the minor texts of sheet 13. Mercator uses as his reference a fourteenth-century English friar and mathematician who used an astrolabe to survey the septentrional ...
Frontispiece of the 1595 Atlas of Mercator. An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or of a continent or region of Earth.. Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today, many atlases are in multimedia formats.
The library's copy of the 1595 atlas of Gerardus Mercator. With more than 6 million items on over 150 km (93 mi) of bookshelves, the Royal Library of Belgium is the biggest library in the country. It contains: 4,600,000 modern printed books; 21,500 magazines; 150,000 maps; 32,000 manuscripts; 300,000 early printed materials
Mercator's map of 1595. The earliest maps of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania depict it together with other regions of Eastern or Northern Europe, particularly with Russia or Poland. The first map depicting only the Grand Duchy was printed by Gerardus Mercator in an atlas in 1595. [1]
A Mercator map can therefore never fully show the polar areas (but see Uses below for applications of the oblique and transverse Mercator projections). The Mercator projection is often compared to and confused with the central cylindrical projection , which is the result of projecting points from the sphere onto a tangent cylinder along ...