Rumold Mercator (Leuven, 1541 – Duisburg, 31 December 1599) was a cartographer, son of Gerardus Mercator and brother of Arnold Mercator, both also cartographers...

years Mercator's definition of atlas has become simply A collection of maps in a volume. Mercator Atlas title page The world map of Rumold Mercator The...

Gerardus Mercator, a 16th-century cartographer Mercator 1569 world map Mercator projection, a cartographic projection devised by Gerardus Mercator Rumold Mercator...

son of cartographer Gerardus Mercator and a brother of Rumold Mercator. Arnold was the eldest child of Gerardus Mercator and Barbara Schellekens from...

the Earth's surface. Its popularity in cartography increased after Rumold Mercator used its equatorial aspect for his 1595 atlas. It subsequently saw...

cartographers held to Aristotle's opinion. Scientists such as Gerardus Mercator (1569) and Alexander Dalrymple as late as 1767 argued for its existence...

maps between the 15th and 18th centuries. Scientists, such as Gerardus Mercator (1569) and Alexander Dalrymple as late as 1767 argued for its existence...

stereographic projection, as were later the maps of Jean Roze (1542), Rumold Mercator (1595), and many others. In star charts, even this equatorial aspect...

earth. During his life, Mercator published five volumes of his atlas, the last one being published by his son Rumold. After Mercator's death, the Amsterdam...