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Title	World map 1538
Full Title	[World map on double cordiform projection] / Joanni Drosio suo Gerardus Rupelmudan deducabat.
Creator	Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
Publication Date	1538
Subject	World maps--Early works to 1800
Notes	Relief shown pictorially. Includes text. In upper center of sheet: Quam hic vides orbis imagine lector cadide... Vale. In upper right of sheet: Ne que ad nos Fram orbis... Roma.
Essay Description of Item	This world map on two sheets is an early work of the famous Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator (1512–94). Only two copies of the map are extant: this one from the American Geographical Society Library, and one at the New York Public Library. This is also the first map to apply the name America to the North American continent as well as to South America and to differentiate North and South America as separate continents. In using the term “America” in this way, Mercator shares responsibility with Martin Waldseemüller for naming the Western Hemisphere. Mercator was a master of engraving and a creator of mathematical instruments and terrestrial globes. His solution to the problem of accurately conveying the Earth’s sphere in only two dimensions, as used here in a double-heart-shaped projection, resulted in maps of greatly increased accuracy. Mercator’s famous 1569 navigational charts, on the projection that bears his name, enabled compass bearings to be plotted in straight lines on charts and clarified longitude and latitude measurements.
Type	image
Scale	[ca. 1:65,000,000] Cordiform proj.
Original Collection	American Geographical Society Library - Maps
Original Item Description	1 map ; 2 hemispheres each 31 cm. in diam., on sheet 46 x 61 cm.
Original Item ID	(AGS) (RARE) 050 A-1538 (framed)
Repository	American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Digital Publisher	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Rights	The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Digital ID	am000289
Digital Format	image/tif; image/jp2
Date.Digitized	2010-01-13
Digital Collection	American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection

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