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    for binding into his Atlas of 1595. This was the first appearance of the word Atlas in reference to a book of maps. However, Mercator used it as a neologism...
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    Ogygia. The term "atlas" has been used to describe a collection of maps since the 16th century when Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator published his work...
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    Gérard Mercator (1512–1594) et le premier atlas du monde. Avec les reproductions en couleur de l'ensemble des planches de l'Atlas de Mercator de 1595 (2o...
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    The Mercator projection (/mərˈkeɪtər/) is a conformal cylindrical map projection first presented by Flemish geographer and mapmaker Gerardus Mercator in...
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    use of the word "atlas" in a geographical context dates from 1595 when the German-Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator published Atlas Sive Cosmographicae...
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    Claesz in 1604 he purchased the plates of Gerard Mercator's Atlas from Mercator's grandson. Mercator's work had languished in comparison to the rival Theatrum...
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    and Didier Robert De Vaugondy published The Atlas Universel, one of the most important atlases of the 18th century. To produce the atlas, the Vaugondys integrated...
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    Mercator is a steel-hulled barquentine built in 1932 as a training ship for the Belgian merchant fleet. She was named after Gerardus Mercator (1512–1594)...
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    Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (category Atlases)
    Golden Age of Dutch cartography. Mercator, Gerardus; Karrow, Robert W. Jr. Atlas sive Cosmographicæ Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura...
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    creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World). Along with Gemma Frisius and Gerardus Mercator, Ortelius is generally...
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    published atlases as Mercator/Hondius/Janssonius. Under the leadership of Janssonius the Hondius Atlas was steadily enlarged. Renamed Atlas Novus, it...
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    Don (river) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Donko in Mercator's Atlas (1596). Donkov was again relocated in 1618, appearing as Donkagorod in Joan Blaeu's map of 1645. Both Blaeu and Mercator follow...
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  • portraits of Julius Caesar, Claudius Ptolemy, and the atlas's first two publishers, Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius, the father of Hendrik. Among its...
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    Dell'Arcano del Mare (category Atlases)
    a maritime atlas of the entire world, which is the first such in print, the first made by an Englishman, and the first to use the Mercator projection...
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    La Palma (redirect from Isla de la Palma)
    needed] The Carlsberg Meridian Telescope (CMT). The 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) Mercator Telescope. The 2 m (6 ft 7 in) Liverpool Telescope. The 10.4 m (34 ft)...
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  • Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Ortelius, Flanders, 1570–1612) Mercator's Atlas (1578) 17th century Atlas Novus (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1635–1658; 1645 edition at...
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    nautical atlases. The following six atlas from the period 1568-1580 are known: 1568 - 20 manuscript sheets on parchment, dedicated to D. Luís de Ataíde...
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    Hondius II's widow. Afterwards, he published an Atlantis Appendix to Mercator's atlas in 1630, containing 60 maps, but no text. The next year a new edition...
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    onto a plane.[citation needed] The most well-known map projection is the Mercator projection.: 45  This map projection has the property of being conformal...
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  • map (1457) Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Piri Reis map (1513) Dieppe maps (c. 1540s-1560s) Mercator 1569 world map Theatrum...
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    University of Duisburg-Essen (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    1654 and re-established on 1 January 2003, as a merger of the Gerhard Mercator University of Duisburg and the university of Essen. It is based in both...
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    subsequent maps it was labeled Johan de Nova on a map by Salvatore de Pilestrina (1519), Joa de Nova (Mercator, 1569), San-Christophoro (Ortelius, 1570)...
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    and the bespoke NZMG projection was replaced by New Zealand Transverse Mercator 2000. New Zealand topographical maps are sold digitally and in 1:50,000...
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    are. Mercator is also credited as the first to use the word "atlas" to describe a collection of maps. In the later years of his life, Mercator resolved...
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    "[World map in Mercator's projection] [cartographic material] - National Library of Australia". 1803. "Cedid Atlas Tercumesi [ New Atlas, translated ]...
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    maps by Abraham Ortelius (1564), Bolognini Zaltieri (1567) and Gerardus Mercator (1567). The Zaltieri and Gastaldi maps show it narrow and crooked. Gastaldi...
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  • Wayback Machine (subscription access) Mercator, Gerardu; Karrow, Robert W. Jr. Atlas sive Cosmographicæ Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura...
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  • the Atlas, which recalls the very first geographical atlas, Mercator's Atlas of 1595. This work was already conceived by its creator, Gerard Mercator, as...
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    Gerardus Mercator believed in the existence of a large Southern continent on the basis of cosmographic reasoning, set out in the abstract of his Atlas or Cosmographic...
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  • original maritime atlas of the entire world, which is the first such in print, the first made by an Englishman, and the first to use the Mercator projection...
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