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Mappemonde de Gérard Mercator, Duisbourg, 1569 04

Gerard Mercator's Mappemonde, Duisburg, 1569, part 4. This map, on which Gerard Mercator first used the famous projection with increasing latitudes, which he invented, contains, in the original, numerous and extensive legends, which will be scrupulously reproduced in the volume of text intended to complete this publication. From Jomard's Les Monuments de la géographie, ou, Recueil d'anciennes cartes européennes et orientales

Date
1864
Mapmaker / publisher
Jomard, Edme-François (1777-1862)
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
6,282 × 8,364 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

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