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...

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...

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...

The Mercator projection (/mərˈkeɪtər/) is a conformal cylindrical map projection first presented by Flemish geographer and mapmaker Gerardus Mercator in...

use of the word "atlas" in a geographical context dates from 1595 when the German-Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator published Atlas Sive Cosmographicae...

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...

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...

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)...

Golden Age of Dutch cartography. Mercator, Gerardus; Karrow, Robert W. Jr. Atlas sive Cosmographicæ Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura...

creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World). Along with Gemma Frisius and Gerardus Mercator, Ortelius is generally...

published atlases as Mercator/Hondius/Janssonius. Under the leadership of Janssonius the Hondius Atlas was steadily enlarged. Renamed Atlas Novus, it...

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...

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)...

Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Ortelius, Flanders, 1570–1612) Mercator's Atlas (1578) 17th century Atlas Novus (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1635–1658; 1645 edition at...

portraits of Julius Caesar, Claudius Ptolemy, and the atlas's first two publishers, Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius, the father of Hendrik. Among its...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

"[World map in Mercator's projection] [cartographic material] - National Library of Australia". 1803. "Cedid Atlas Tercumesi [ New Atlas, translated ]...

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...

Wayback Machine (subscription access) Mercator, Gerardu; Karrow, Robert W. Jr. Atlas sive Cosmographicæ Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura...

maps by Abraham Ortelius (1564), Bolognini Zaltieri (1567) and Gerardus Mercator (1567). The Zaltieri and Gastaldi maps show it narrow and crooked. Gastaldi...

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...

Telescope Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope Liverpool Telescope (2003– ) MAGIC MASCARA Mercator Telescope Nordic Optical Telescope Swedish Solar Telescope Wide Angle Search...