Maps from Mercator
Rest of the world
Gerardi Mercatoris – Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra. The Fleming Gerard Mercator (1512-1594) is rightfully regarded as the most important scientific cartographer of the Renaissance. With two contemporaries, the geographer Abraham Ortelius and the printer and publisher Christoffel Plantijn, he is considered the father of commercial cartography in the Netherlands. Even during his lifetime his maps, globes and atlases found their way all over the world.
In 1585, Mercator published the first three parts of his own book of maps in one volume, which he called Atlas. The second edition appeared in 1589, with the addition of a fourth part. The edition on the dvd is from 1623 and has almost 200 maps. All the maps are on this dvd scanned in high resolution.
There are maps from all the countries of the world and many maps on region level from Anglia (Great Brittain), Gallia (France), Belgii inferioris (Benelux), Germania (Germany), Italia (Italy), Africa, Americas & Asia. In total almost 200 maps in the jpg-format, on average 15Mb per scan.