Mercator Atlas 1595
Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et
fabricati figvra.
It contains 57 double page maps.
This is a reprint published by the Coron Verlag Lachen.
Complete coined leather cover from finest cattle leather.
Folio in the format 17.8" x 12.2" x 2.3" inch
Weight is 11 lbs
About the Mercator Atlas:
To the modern eye the maps are powerful magic, casting us
back to a place in time when the outlines of the world as we
know it were first emerging from darkness.
Gerardus Mercator was a 16th-century Flemish cartographer
and if you check the dictionary or desk top encyclopedia
closest to hand, it'll probably mention him as well as the
years he lived (1512-1594). If there is such an entry in
your dictionary, however, it will spend more time explaining
the Mercator projection which is the system of
map projection that Mercator developed and which -- in
severely refined form -- is not archaic today.
Passion, brilliance, perseverance and his projection system
are what enabled Mercator to create maps more accurate than
any that had gone before. It is also thought that he was the
first cartographer to bind his creations together in a
cohesive way. So that you could see -- under one binding --
how map "a" fit to map "b". It is thought that he created
the first known Atlas. The world, as seen by Mercator, was a
much more understandable place.
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