Editing Gerardus Mercator (section)

==Frans Hogenberg portrait text==
[[Frans Hogenberg]] was a close friend of Mercator. His portrait features prominently at the beginning of the Atlas. The text around the portrait is<br> 
:''Magna Pelusiacis debetur gratia chartis// Magna tibi priscum tandem superasse laborem// Mercator, tractusque novos, terraeque, marisque// Monstrasse, et magnum quod continent omnia caelum.  I. Vivian. ludeb'' (Great thanks are owed to the  Ptolemaic charts, and great thanks to you, Mercator, for having at last surpassed that ancient labour, and for having shown new stretches of the earth and sea, and the great, all-containing heavens. By J. Vivian)
The text below the image reads is <br>
<small>GERARDI MERCATORIS RUPELMUNDANI EFFIGIEM ANNOR. / DUORUM ET SEX – AGINTA, SUI ERGA IPSUM STV DII / CAUSA DEPINGI CURABAT FRAC. HOG. M. D. LXXIV</small> (Gerardus Mercator of Rupelmonde at the age of 62—Frans Hogenburg made this portrait out of affection for him.  [[Roman Numerals#Apostrophus|1574]])<br>
For an analysis of the Mercator portrait see {{harvnb|Zuber|2011|pp= 524–527}}