Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio quam ex magna vniversali Gerardi Mercatoris Domino Richardo Gartho, geographi[a]e ac c[a]eterarum bonarum artium amatori ac fautori summo, in veteris amiciti[a]e ac familiaritatis memoria[m] Rumoldus Mercator fieri curabat A°.M.D.LXXXVII
Rumold Mercator
MAP
1602
1 map : hand col. ; 2 hemisphere each 26 cm. in diam., on sheet 37 x 53 cm
Abstract
This influential double-hemisphere world map was created by Rumold Mercator from the 1569 "World Wall Map" of his father, Gerhard Mercator. Note the large southern continent; an unusual delineation for East Asia; and the distorted bulge in southern South America.
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