Where to find Mercator globes
It is not known how many globes Gerardus Mercator produced during his lifetime or how many continued to be made after his death. At present fewer than 30 pairs are catalogued […]
It is not known how many globes Gerardus Mercator produced during his lifetime or how many continued to be made after his death. At present fewer than 30 pairs are catalogued […]
Mercator became a producer of scientific instruments, as well as a draughtsman, engraver and illuminator. He used these skills to create maps and globes […]
The oldest surviving terrestrial globe was produced by Martin Behaim. Dating from 1492, it reflects the state of geological knowledge just before the first expedition of Christopher Columbus […]
Globes were initially single copies produced by hand. Printing presses made it possible to make them cheaply in limited series […]
Ptolemy can be regarded at once as the last of the great cartographers and astronomers in ancient Greece and the first in the Western world […]
In Western history, spherical representations of the heavens can be traced back to ancient Greece […]
Human awareness of time and space arose in the distant past. The stars, serving as both clock and calendar, gradually made it possible to establish points of reference […]
Mercator’s maps and globes emerged in the 16th century, at a time when innovations in Europe were driving strong momentum and a swirl of new questions […]