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"Gerhard Mercator 1595 World Atlas - Cosmographicae"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 the heaven on his shoulders. The entire book, including front and back covers, front- and end-papers, all latin text, incidental images, and ALL IMAGES from this site, is available on a user friendly CD-ROM for $9.95 at the DigitalVista eBay Store.

MapWalls.com - Free Map Wallpapers, Ancient Atlas Maps, Illuminated Manuscript, Renaissance Mapping, Map Prints, Mercator Cosmographicae formatted as Desktop Background Wallpapers - Over 100 antique map atlas photographs for use as Windows or Mac desktop background wallpaper images and screensavers - stunning high resolution photo quality desktop wallpapers of Gerhard Mercator's 1595 World Atlas, with 100+ color map prints desktop wallpapers. Plus, every image can be played as an online sliding tile puzzle! Select from five skill levels! All images free for personal use only. Commercial royalty free and traditional licensing available. Source images courtesy of U.S. Library of Congress. All images, programming and content Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Josh Carpenter. All rights reserved.