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Sixteenth-century geographer Gerardus Mercator was born in 1512 in Rupelmonde, Flanders. He lived during a time of religious strife and for a time was imprisoned for heresy. Mercator began his career as a maker of mathematical instruments, but he won lasting renown with his world map of 1569, which introduced a new way of showing the spherical earth on a flat sheet of paper. This method, called the Mercator projection, is still used today. His 1585 book, titled Atlas, was the first to use that word to describe a collection of maps. ... Read more

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Chapters: Gerardus Mercator, Andreas Vesalius, François D'aguilon, Ilya Prigogine, Henri Debehogne, Paul Otlet, Chaïm Perelman, Henri Pirenne, Georges Lemaître, Elliot Pinhey, Steven Laureys, Jozef T. Devreese, Paul Janssen, Ingrid Daubechies, George Van Biesbroeck, Adolphe Quetelet, Albert Claude, François-Louis Ganshof, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps, François Englert, Emmanuel de Merode, Robert Cailliau, Philippe Autier, Eugène Joseph Delporte, Chris Van Den Wyngaert, Axel Cleeremans, Johannes Stadius, Walter Fiers, Charles Jean de La Vallée-Poussin, Marc Van Montagu, Anselmus de Boodt, Christian de Duve, Désiré Van Monckhoven, Joseph Plateau, Michael Van Langren, Alphonse Francois Renard, Marcel Minnaert, Sylvain Julien Victor Arend, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Corneille Heymans, Georges de Moor, Eugène Charles Catalan, Gerard de Jode, Henri La Fontaine, Jean Meeus, Herman Van Breda, Paul Lewi, Joseph Maréchal, Jozef Schell, Jean Théodore Lacordaire, Jurgen Del-Favero, Cornelis de Jode, Jacques Taminiaux, Hugo Van Heuverswyn, Xavier Saelens, Alexis Jacquemin, Pol Swings, Luis Siret, André Dumont, Didier de Chaffoy de Courcelles, Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck, Ann Van Gysel, François Walther de Sluze, Eric Walter Elst, Sophie de Schaepdrijver, Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Benjamin Van Camp, Mark Waer, Luc Steels, Kris Deschouwer, Vincent Timmerman, Désiré Collen, Philippe Devaux, Charles Malapert, Ernest Candèze, Jean Bricmont, Etienne Pays, Eugene Goblet D'alviella, Thierry Bogaert, Bart de Schutter, Marcel Florkin, Paul Stoffels, Paul Magnette, Jean-Luc Brédas, Paul Gochet, Radu Bălescu, Lode Wyns, Rudy Dekeyser, Koen Andries, Jean-Christophe Marine, Frederic Rousseau, Jean-Pascal Van Ypersele, Jean Auguste Ulric Scheler, Marc Van Ranst, Paul Émile de Puydt, Johan Thevelein, Jean-Claude Lorquet, Frans Van Roy, Rene Thomas, Joost Schymkowitz, Herman Van Den Berghe, Jean-Luc Margot, Arthur Van Gehuchten, Thierry Boon, Els Witte, M...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=624341 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Gerardus Mercator, James V of Scotland, Galeazzo Alessi, Jerónimo Zurita Y Castro, Adrianus Turnebus, Rodrigo de Quiroga, Diego Laynez, Eliezer Ben Elijah Ashkenazi, Melchor Bravo de Saravia, Marcin Kromer, Henry of Portugal, Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, Cristoforo Madruzzo, Friedrich Staphylus, Nils Sture, Paulus Manutius, Diego de Covarubias Y Leyva, Mikołaj "The Red" Radziwiłł, Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Earl of Bothwell, Sybille of Cleves, Gaspar de Quiroga Y Vela, Diego de Covarrubias, Antonio Da Ponte, Lazzaro Calvi, Prospero Fontana, Devlet I Giray, John Man, James Brooks, Giovanni Padovani, Rodolfo Baglioni, Juan Paez de Castro, Tomaso Cimello, Domingo de Salazar, Pedro Agustín, John Freeston, Francesco Vimercato, Thomas Sébillet, Fukubara Hirotoshi, Itō Yoshisuke. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: James V (10 April 1512 14 December 1542) was King of Scots from 9 September 1513 until his premature death at the age of 30, which followed the Scottish defeat at the Battle of Solway Moss. His only surviving legitimate child, Mary, Queen of Scots, succeeded him to the throne when just six or seven days old. The son of King James IV of Scotland and his queen, Margaret Tudor of England, he was born on 10 April 1512, at Linlithgow Palace, West Lothian, and was just seventeen months old when his father was killed at the Battle of Flodden Field on 9 September 1513. He was crowned in the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle on 21 September 1513. During his childhood, the country was ruled by regents, first by his mother, Margaret Tudor (sister of King Henry VIII of England), until she remarried the following year, and thereafter by John Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, who was himself next in line for the throne after James and his younger brother, the posthu...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=50552 ... Read more

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Chapters: Desiderius Erasmus, Gerardus Mercator, Pope Adrian Vi, Otto Von Habsburg, Michael Baius, Malachi Martin, Faculty of Theology, Catholic University of Leuven, Robert Henryson, Georges Lemaître, Léon Degrelle, Fulton J. Sheen, Jan Standonck, Alberto Hurtado, Prince Henri, Count of Paris, Paul Janssen, Philip Verheyen, Marnix Gijsen, Henri Reynders, Cornelis de Bie, Cornelius Jansen, Izidor Cankar, Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Justus Lipsius, Thomas Garnet, Géza Vermes, Damião de Góis, Arnold Geulincx, Patrick William Riordan, Luce Irigaray, Rembert Dodoens, Jean Nguza Karl-I-Bond, Lode Van Den Bergh, Francis Janssens, Albrecht Rodenbach, Theophile Meerschaert, Patrick Francis Healy, Emile Verhaeren, Charles Albert Buswell, Edgar Sengier, Diarmaid Ó Hurthuile, Louis Charles Casartelli, Robert Edward Mulvee, Weng Wenhao, Charles John Seghers, Pedro de Ribadeneira, Łukasz Opaliński, Alphonso Lingis, Jacques Van Ypersele de Strihou, Raymond Collins, John Lancaster Spalding, Tang Yuhan, Viglius, Thomas Francis Maloney, Archduchess Adelheid of Austria, Étienne Davignon, Charles Jean de La Vallée-Poussin, Ernan Mcmullin, Russell Mcvinney, Willem Hessels Van Est, Anton Van Wilderode, Alphonse Joseph Glorieux, Abraomas Kulvietis, Christian de Duve, Camilo Torres Restrepo, Johannes Van Den Driesche, Jean Jérôme Hamer, Ferdinand Brossart, William Damasus Lindanus, Azarías Pallais, Charles Nerinckx, Alexander M. Zaleski, Josse Ravesteyn, Cornelius Jansen, Leonardus Lessius, Jean Meeus, Charles Pasquale Greco, Marinus Van Reymerswaele, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Herman Van Breda, Jan Pieter Schotte, Jean Du Vergier de Hauranne, Paul Lewi, Jan Zaprudnik, Piet Van Waeyenberge, Gaston Geens, Herman Koeckemann, Marcin Kalinowski, Edmund Michael Dunne, Patrick Alphonsus Buckley, Maurice Anthony Biot, Louis de La Vallée-Poussin, Bernard Du Bus de Gisignies, Camillus Paul Maes, Charles Polydore de Mont, Victor Delhez, Barys Rahula, Stephen Alo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=858147 ... Read more

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Chapters: Gerardus Mercator, Martin Waldseemüller, Sebastian Münster, Georg Joachim Rheticus, Hartmann Schedel, Johann Homann, Johann Friedrich Endersch, Martin Helwig, Martin Behaim, Erhard Etzlaub, Matthias Ringmann, Johannes Schöner, Carsten Niebuhr, Dietrich Heinrich Ludwig Von Ompteda, Karl Freiherr Von Müffling, Johannes Werner, Augustin Hirschvogel, Johannes Honter, Nicolaus Germanus, Georg Tannstetter, John William Gerard de Brahm, August Heinrich Petermann, Henricus Martellus Germanus, Heinrich Berghaus, Andreas Walsperger, Caspar Hennenberger, Johann Matthias Hase, Hermann Von Rosenberg, Richard Andree, Matthäus Seutter, Fryderyk Getkant, Bruno Hassenstein, Emil Von Sydow, Wilhelm Von Schulte, Hermann Wagner, Friedrich Wilhelm Putzger, Christian Gottlieb Reichard, Richard Kiepert, Johann August Kaupert, Gervase of Ebstorf, Arno Peters, Georg Hartmann, Karl Spruner Von Merz, Heinrich Zell, Adolf Stieler, Conrad Buno. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 138. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Martin (von) Behaim (October 6, 1459 July 29, 1507), (also known as Martinho da Boémia, Martin Bohemus, Martin Behaim von Schwarzbach, or, in Latin, known as Martinus de Boemia) was a German cosmographer, astronomer, geographer and explorer in service to the King of Portugal. Monument of Martin Behaim in the Theresienplatz, NurembergBehaim was born in Nuremberg, according to one source, about 1436; according to Ghillany, he was born in Bohemia, as late as 1459, to Martin Behaim and Agnes Schopper, merchants and the oldest of seven sons . Martin Behaim, the father, had many businesses including ones in Venice, and was later an elected senator (1461), eventually dying in 1474 (Agnes Schopper died later on July 8, 1487). With a vocation in commerce, he parted around 1477 for Flanders, settling...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=236316 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Gerardus Mercator, Thomas Kyd, Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina, Martin Frobisher, Philippe de Carteret I, Tintoretto, William Allen, Orlande de Lassus, Colin Cam Mackenzie of Kintail, Alonso de Ercilla, Casiodoro de Reina, Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby, Richard Tottel, Bálint Balassi, John Piers, Wolstan Dixie, Paulus Buys, John Aylmer, Pedro Mariño de Lobera, Archduchess Eleanor of Austria, Ishikawa Goemon, Rodrigo López, Thomas Cooper, Barnabe Googe, John Woolton, Thomas Scott, Cristóvão Da Costa, Francesco Panigarola, Edward Waterson, John Cornelius, Giles Brydges, 3rd Baron Chandos, Louis de Revol, William Painter, Jacob Kurz Von Senftenau, John Boste, William Harrington, Juan de La Cerda, 5th Duke of Medinaceli, Paolo Bellasio, Claude Dupuy, Peter the Lame, William Reynolds, John Ingram, Girolamo Mei, Edmund Scambler, Ludwig Pfyffer, Petrus Van Der Aa, Alonso de San Buenaventura, Edward Osbaldeston, Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre, Jean Châtel, William Kethe, Andrew Morris, Tsuchida Gozen, Cristobal López, John Speed, Domingo de Salazar, Hongo Tadatora, Nicolas de Pellevé, Kujō Tanemichi, Kujō Kanetaka, John Johnson, John Freeston. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Tintoretto (September 29, 1518 May 31, 1594), real name Jacopo Comin, was an Italian painter and a notable exponent of the Venetian Renaissance school. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso, and his dramatic use of perspectival space and special lighting effects make him a precursor of Baroque art. In his youth, Tintoretto was also known as Jacopo Robusti as his father had defended the gates of Padua in a rather robust way against the imperial troops during the War of the League of Cambrai (1509-1516). His real name "Comin" has only recently been ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=338821 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 594 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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Chapters: Gerardus Mercator, Abraham Ortelius, Orthellius Family, Jodocus Hondius, Michael Van Langren, Gerard de Jode, Cornelis de Jode, Rumold Mercator. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Abraham Ortelius (Abraham Ortels) (April 14, 1527 June 28, 1598) was a Flemish cartographer and geographer, generally recognised as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World). He is also believed to be the first person to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present positions. He was born in the city of Antwerp, which was then in the Habsburg ruled Seventeen Provinces and is now in Belgium. A member of the influential Ortelius family of Augsburg, he traveled extensively in Europe. He is specifically known to have traveled throughout the Seventeen Provinces; in southern, western, northern, and eastern Germany (e.g., 1560, 15751576); France (15591560); England and Ireland (1576), and Italy (1578, and perhaps twice or thrice between 1550 and 1558). Beginning as a map-engraver, in 1547 he entered the Antwerp guild of St Luke as afsetter van Karten. His early career is that of a businessman, and most of his journeys before 1560 are for commercial purposes (such as his yearly visits to the Frankfurt book and print fair). In 1560, however, when travelling with Mercator to Trier, Lorraine, and Poitiers, he seems to have been attracted, largely by Mercators influence, towards the career of a scientific geographer; in particular he now devoted himself, at his friends suggestion, to the compilation of that atlas, or Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World), by which he became famous. In 1575 he was appointed geographer to the king of Spain, Philip II, on the recommendation of Arias M...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=160235 ... Read more

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German Edition of facsimile of Mercator Atlas Published in 1595. Text in Latin. Addendum text in German. ... Read more

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Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored."  Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books.

There are now 65,000  titles available  (that's an incredible 25 million pages) of material ranging from works by famous names such as  Dickens, Trollope and Hardy as well as many forgotten literary gems , all of which can now be printed on demand and purchased right here on Amazon.

Further information on The British Library and its digitisation programme can be found on The British Library website. ... Read more

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Gerardus Mercator can confidently be called the greatest cartographer of the sixteenth century. His most famous contribution to science is a technique of rendering the globe on a flat surface, still known as "Mercator’s projection," that was first used for a 1569 world map. No less significant was the publication in 1595, one year after the author’s death, of the complete Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura (Atlas, or Cosmographic Meditations on the Fabric of the World and the Figure of the Fabrick’d). With this volume, a collection of maps was linked for the first time with the figure of Atlas, the Greek Titan, condemned by Zeus to carry the vault of heaven on his shoulders. For Mercator, geographical description was more than the practical matter of locating places or showing how to get from one point to another. The cartographer was able to split the world in unfamiliar and uncomfortable ways, but he also had the means, through mathematical reasoning, to bind it up so that it approached a divine unity.

Although the idea of bringing maps together into a book did not originate with Mercator, he can certainly be called the first modern, scientific cartographer. His early charts, used with a magnetic compass (and an awareness of compass declination) gave the sailor the most reliable guide he had ever possessed. No one else could claim the breadth of his understanding of terrestrial magnetism and map projection. Mercator also published the first manual of the italic hand to be printed outside Italy; he used italic exclusively on his maps and it, too, has remained a staple of cartography up to the present day. This particular copy of Mercator’s Atlas is exceptional for its beautiful hand-coloring.

Commentary by Robert W. Karrow, Jr., essay on color in cartography, English translation. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from World of Earth Science, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 705 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.A comprehensive guide to the concepts, theories, discoveries, pioneers, and issues relating to topics in earth science. Its encyclopedic approach offers entries that are written in easy to understand language. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1162 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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Hammond World Map Collectors Series Mercator Projection by Hammond World Atlas Corporation, Alliance Promotions, Little Debbie, HWAC Maps, Gerardus Mercator. ISBN 1073742113. EAN 9781073742110. Published in 2007 by HWAC Maps. Folded Map. In English. Limited Collector's Edition. ... Read more