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Mercator 1569 world map - Wikipedia 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")
Map, Available Online, 1569 | Library of Congress These maps record the evolution of cities illustrating the development and nature of economic activities, educational and religious facilities, parks, street patterns and widths, and transportation systems
Gerardus Mercator - Education In 1569, Mercator published his epic world map This map, with its Mercator projection, was designed to help sailors navigate around the globe They could use latitude and longitude lines to plot a straight route Mercator’s projection laid out the globe as a flattened version of a cylinder
Mercator, World Map (1569) | cabinet Gerard Mercator (1512-1594) is 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
Map of the world by Gerardus Mercator, 1569 - NCpedia Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator published this map of the world, Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigatium Emendate, in 1569 It was the first map to use his "Mercator projection," which became the standard projection for navigational maps
Mercator map - Princeton University It is the first full map of the Arctic, an expansion of Mercator's inset of the area in his world map of 1569, here showing recent Northwest and Northeast Passage discoveries
Map #47: Mercator’s World Map, 1569 | Oxford Map Companion This brief excerpt from Jerry Brotton’s A History of the World in Twelve Maps provides the best short read on Mercator’s projection For teachers there is a short lesson here
Mercator 1569 world map explained Mercator's 1569 map was a large planisphere, [2] i e a projection of the spherical Earth onto the plane It was printed in eighteen separate sheets from copper plates engraved by Mercator himself [3]
Plate 15. Cartography 1492-1867. Mercator Map, 1569. (Facsimile). It combines history and geography, facsimile historical maps and new historical maps, and incorporates time and statistics in imaginative map visualizations The text and maps are based upon information supplied by prominent authorities on the various subjects