1589 Mercator Map of HOLLAND: GELDERLAND *Beautiful!#56

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1589 Mercator Map HOLLAND: GELDERLAND * ORIGINAL ANTIQUE! Title : "HOLLAND: GELDERLAND" From Gerard Mercator's famous "Tabulae Geographicae". Duisburg: 1589. Size : Sheet size of map is 16½" x 21" or 42cm x 54cm. Description : This beautiful copper engraved map is by the famous cartographer Gerard Mercator an d is engraved on nice quality paper . This is an original antique, NOT a reproduction and guaranteed to be over 415 years old. GERARD MERCATOR (KREMER) 1512-94 For nearly sixty years, during the most important and exciting period in the story of modern map making, Gerard Mercator was the supreme cartographer, his name, second only to Ptolemy, synonymous with the form 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 bearings could be plotted on charts in straight lines, tby providing seamen with a solution to an age-old problem of navigation at sea. His influence transformed land surveying and his researches and calculations led him to break away from Ptolemy's conception of the size and outline of the Continents, drastically reducing the longitudinal length of Europe and Asia and altering the shape of the Old World as visualized in the early sixteenth century. (Moreland & Bannister, 1983) Please click on read more

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