Editing Gerardus Mercator (section)

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*{{citation |year=1914 |last1=Averdunk |first1=Heinrich |last2=Müller-Reinhard |first2=Josef |title=Gerhard Mercator und die Geographen unter seinen Nachkommen (''Gerardus Mercator and geographers among his descendants'') |oclc=3283004 |publisher=Perthes, Gotha}}. Reprinted by ''[[Theatrum Orbis Terrarum]]'', Amsterdam 1969 ({{oclc|911661875}}). WorldCat also lists an English edition ({{oclc|557542582}})
*{{cite book |last=Barber |first=Peter M. |chapter=The British Isles |title=The Mercator Atlas of Europe: Facsimile of the Maps of Gerardus Mercator Contained in the Atlas of Europe, circa 1570—1572 |editor-first=Marcel |editor-last=Watelet |pages=43–77 |location=Pleasant Hill, Oreg. |publisher=Walking Tree Press |date=1998 |url=http://www.walkingtree.com/MercatorAtlas/excerptbarber.html }}
*{{Citation |last=Basson |first=Thomas |year=1604 |title=Catalogus librorum bibliothecae clarissimi doctissimique viro piae memoriae, Gerardi Mercatoris (''A catalogue of the books of the library of the most famous and very learned man, Gerard Mercator of pious memory'') |place=Antwerp |publisher=Mercatorfonds Paribas, 1994. – |isbn=90-6153-332-5}}. This is a facsimile of the handwritten copy of the original printed auction catalogue published by Thomas Basson, (Leiden, 1604). Copies are available through the Mercator museum in Sint Niklaas.
{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Mercator, Gerardus |volume= 18 |last= Beazley |first= Charles Raymond |author-link= Charles Raymond Beazley | pages = 149&ndash;150 |short= 1 }}
*{{citation |last1=Brandt |first1=Geeraert |last2=Chamberlayne |first2=John |year=1740 |title=The History of the Reformation and Other Ecclesiastical Transactions in and about the Low-Countries. |publisher=T. Wood |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dv1cAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA129 |language=en }}
*{{citation |year=1869 |last=Breusing |first=Arthur |title=Gerhard Kremer gen. Mercator, der deutsche Geograph |location=Duisburg |oclc=9652678}}. Note: 'gen.' is an abbreviation for genommen, named. Recently reprinted by General Books ({{ISBN|978-1-235-52723-4}}) and Kessinger ({{ISBN|978-1-168-32168-8}}). A facsimile may be viewed and downloaded from [http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb11165023-0 Bayerische StaatsBibliothek]
*{{Citation |ref={{harvid|BritannicaOnline|2015}} |title=Britannica.com Online: Gerardus Mercator |date=28 November 2023 |url=http://www.britannica.com/biography/Gerardus-Mercator }}
*{{cite book |last1=Calcoen |first1=Roger |last2=Elkhadem |first2=Hossam |last3=Heerbrant |first3=Jean-Paul |last4=Imhof |first4=Dirk |last5=Otte |first5=Els |last6=Van der Gucht |first6=Alfred |last7=ellens-De Donder |first7=Liliane |title=The cartographer Gerard Mercator 1512–1594 |place=Brussels |year=1994 |publisher=Gemeentekrediet |isbn=2-87193-202-6}} Published on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the death of Mercator to coincide with the opening of the [http://musea.sint-niklaas.be/ Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas] and an exhibition at the [http://www.kbr.be/ Royal Library Albert I<sup>er</sup> in Brussels].
*{{citation |last1=Clair |first1=Colin |year=1987 |title=Christopher Plantin |publisher=Plantin Publishers |location=London |isbn=978-1-870495-01-1 |oclc=468070695}}. (First published in 1960 by Cassel, London.)
*{{cite book |last=Crane |first=Nicholas |year=2003 |title=Mercator: the man who mapped the planet |publisher=Phoenix (Orion Books Ltd) |location=London |edition=paperback |isbn=0-7538-1692-X |oclc=493338836}} Original hardback edition published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London), 2002. Published in New York by H. Holt.
*{{citation |last=Dee |first=John |year=1568 |title=Propaedeumata Aphoristica}}. Modern annotated translation in {{harvtxt|Egan|2010}} pp.&nbsp;19–50.
*{{citation |last=Dee |first=John |year=1592 |title=Compendious Rehearsal}}. Modernised text in {{harvtxt|Egan|2010}} pp.&nbsp;225–238
*{{citation |last=De Graeve |first=Jan |year=2012a |title=The Mathematical Library of a Genius |journal=Le Livre & l'Estampe (Société des Bibliophiles et Iconophiles de Belgique) |volume=177 |pages=6–202 |oclc=830346410 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oLuBmwEACAAJ }}. A brief summary of this book (in English) appears in [http://www.bimcc.org/uploads/newsletters/nl44.pdf Newsletter 44, p.24] of the [http://www.bimcc.org/ Brussels Map Circle]. There is also a review in [http://www.bimcc.org/uploads/newsletters/nl45.pdf Newsletter 45, p.7].
*{{citation |last=De Graeve |first=Jan |year=2012b |title=Mercator: His contribution to surveying and cartography |url=https://www.fig.net/resources/monthly_articles/2012/may_2012/may_2012_degraeve.pdf }}
*{{citation |last=Egan |first=Jim |year=2010 |title=The works of John Dee: modernisations of his main mathematical masterpieces |url=http://www.newporttowermuseum.com/resources/2-The-Works-of-John-Dee.pdf }}
*{{citation |last1=Gaspar |first1=Alves Joaquim |last2=Leitão |first2=Henrique |title=How Mercator Did It in 1569: From Tables of Rhumbs to a Cartographic Projection |publisher=European Mathematical Society |year=2016}}. [http://www.ems-ph.org/journals/newsletter/pdf/2016-03-99.pdf EMS Newsletter March 2016], p44.
*{{citation |last=Ghim |first=Walter |year=1595 |title=Vita Mercatoris}}. The latin text is included was printed in the [[#{{harvid|atlas|1595}}|1595 atlas]] which may be viewed at websites such as the [https://www.loc.gov/item/map55000728/ Library of Congress] or the  [http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?c=darlatlas;cc=darlatlas;view=toc;idno=31735060440876 Darlington Library] at the University of Pittsburgh. For translations see {{harvtxt|Osley|1969}} pages 185–194 and {{harvtxt|Sullivan|2000}}  pages 7–24 of the atlas text, pdf pages 77–94.
*{{citation |last=Horst |first=Thomas |year=2011 |title=Le monde en cartes : Gérard Mercator (1512–1594) et le premier atlas du monde |publisher=Mercator Fonds |location=Paris |oclc=798942258}}
*{{Citation |last=Imhof |first=Dirk |year=2012 |contribution=Gerard Mercator and the Officina Plantiniana |title=Mercator: exploring new horizons |publisher=BAI}}. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the [[Plantin-Moretus Museum]].
*{{citation |last=Jonge |first=Henk Jan de |year=1990 |title=Sixteenth Century Gospel Harmonies: Chemnitz and Mercator |url=https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/1008/279_109.pdf |oclc=703539131 }}. (Pages 155–166 of ''Théorie et pratique de l'exégèse. Actes du 3me colloque international sur l'histoire de l'exégèse biblique au XVIme siècle'', Geneva, Droz, 1990),.
*{{citation |last=Karrow |first=Robert William |year=1993 |title=Mapmakers of the sixteenth century and their maps: bio-bibliographies of the cartographers of Abraham Ortelius, 1570 : based on Leo Bagrow's A. Ortelii Catalogus cartographorum |publisher=Speculum Orbis Press for the Newberry Library |isbn=9780932757050 |oclc=28491057}}
*{{citation |last=Karrow |first=Robert William |year=2000 |title=An introduction to the Mercator atlas of 1595}}. This commentary, which accompanies the facsimile edition of the 1595 atlas published by [https://web.archive.org/web/20050314051106/http://www.octavo.com/editions/mcrats/ Octavo] ({{oclc|48878698}}), is freely available in an [https://web.archive.org/web/20160310032427/http://mail.nysoclib.org/mercator_atlas/mcrats.pdf archived version.] from the New York Society Library, pages 1–20 of the introduction to the atlas (pdf pages 2–21). 
*{{citation |last=Keuning |first=J. |year=1947 |title=The History of an Atlas: Mercator. Hondius |jstor=1149747 |journal=Imago Mundi |volume=4 |pages=37–62 |doi=10.1080/03085694708591880}}
*{{citation |last=Krücken |first=Friedrich Wilhelm |year=1996 |title=Ad Maiorem Gerardi Mercatoris Gloriam}}. The six volumes of this work are available from the Mercator pages of [http://www.wilhelmkruecken.de Krücken's web site]().
*{{citation |last=King |first=Robert J |year=2017 |title=Marco Polo's Java and Locach on Mercator's world maps of 1538 and 1569, and globe of 1541 |journal=The Globe |id={{Gale|A492873066}} |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&issn=&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA492873066&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=fulltext&userGroupName=brooklaw_main |volume=81 |pages=41–61 }}
*{{citation |last=King |first=Robert J |year=2018 |title=Finding Marco Polo's Locach |journal=Terrae Incognitae |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=35–52 |doi=10.1080/00822884.2018.1432294 |s2cid=133997439}}
*{{Citation |last1=Mercator |first1=Gerhard |last2=Smet |first2=Antoine de |title=Les sphères terrestre et céleste de Gérard Mercator, 1541 et 1551 : reproductions anastatiques des fuseaux originaux |date=1968 |publisher=Editions Culture et Civilisation |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/19019729 |access-date=1 March 2016 }}. See also the web site of the [http://www.atlascoelestis.com/mer%20fusi%201968.htm Galileo Museum globes]
*{{cite web |url=http://histoforum.net/2012/mercator.html |title=New life for an old atlas with a new world view. Gerard Mercator and the reissue of the Mercator – Hondius atlas from 1607 |last=Martens |first=Jos |date=2012 |access-date=12 January 2018 |archive-date=24 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324023826/http://histoforum.net/2012/mercator.html |url-status=bot: unknown }}This website is a digital resource for teachers of history in the Netherlands. The article is in Dutch but there is a link to an English version.  ().
*{{citation |last=Monmonier |first=Mark Stephen |year=2004 |author-link=Mark Monmonier |title=Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection |publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]] |location=Chicago, Ill |isbn=0-226-53431-6 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/rhumblinesmapwar00monm }}. Chapter 3, Mercator's Résumé, has been made available (with permission) at [http://www.formulas.it/?p=5331 Roma Tre University]. 
*{{citation |last=Osley |first=Arthur Sidney |year=1969 |title=Mercator, a monograph on the lettering of maps, etc. in the 16th century Netherlands, with a facsimile and translation of his treatise on the italic hand and a translation of Ghim's 'Vita Mercatoris' |publisher=Faber and Faber |location=London |oclc=256563091}}. Osley's translation is pages 185–194. For another translation of 'Vita Mercatoris' see {{harvtxt|Sullivan|2000}}  pages 7–24 of the atlas text, pdf pages 77–94.
*{{citation |last=Penneman |first=Theo |year=1994 |title=Mercator & zijn boeken (''Mercator and his books'') |publisher=Koninklijke Oudheidkundige Kring van het Land van Waas (Royal Archaeological Circle of the region of Waas)}}. This is a catalogue prepared for an exhibition at the Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas, 1994. It includes over 100 illustrations of title pages of books known to be in Mercator's library (but not his own copies).
*{{citation |last=Shirley |first=R. W. |year=1983 |title=The Mapping of the World : Early Printed World Maps 1472–1700 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=0-226-76747-7}}
*{{citation |last=Snyder |first=John P |year=1993 |title=Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=0-226-76747-7}}
*{{citation |last=Sullivan |first=David |year=2000 |title=A translation of the full text of the Mercator atlas of 1595}}. This translation, which accompanies the facsimile edition of the 1595 atlas published by [https://web.archive.org/web/20050314051106/http://www.octavo.com/editions/mcrats/ Octavo] ({{oclc|48878698}}), is freely available in an [https://web.archive.org/web/20160310032427/http://mail.nysoclib.org/mercator_atlas/mcrats.pdf archived version] from the New York Society Library. 
*{{citation |year=1921 |last=Stevenson |first=Edward Luther |title=Terrestrial and celestial globes : their history and construction, including a consideration of their value as aids in the study of geography and astronomy (Volume 1, to 1600) |oclc=3283004 |publisher=Published for the Hispanic Society of America by the Yale University Press}}. A facsimile of this book is available at [https://archive.org/stream/terrestrialceles01stevuoft#page/102/mode/2up Archive.org] and a modern (clearer) transcription is available at  [http://www.scientificlib.com/en/Technology/Literature/EdwardLutherStevenson/Globes1.html#f51 Scientificlib.com]
*{{citation |year=2004 |last=Taylor |first=Andrew |title=The world of Gerard Mercator |publisher=Walker |isbn=0-8027-1377-7 |oclc=55207983 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/worldofgerardmer00tayl }}
*{{citation |year=1993 |last=van der Krogt |first=Peter |title=Globi neerlandici: The production of globes in the Low Countries |publisher=Hes & De Graaf |isbn=978-9061941385 |bibcode=1993pglc.book.....V}}. A summary of this book is [http://www.explokart.eu/research/globi.html available online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913033046/http://www.explokart.eu/research/globi.html |date=13 September 2016 }}.
*{{citation |last=Van Durme |first=Maurice |year=1959 |title=Correspondance mercatorienne |publisher=Nederlandsche Boekhandel |location=Antwerp |oclc=1189368}}
*{{citation |year=1868 |last=Van Raemdonck |first=Jean |title=Gerard Mercator: sa vie et ses oeuvres |location=St Nicolas (Sint Niklaas), Belgium}}. Reissued in facsimile by Adamant Media Corporation ({{ISBN|978-1-273-81235-4}}). It is also freely available at the [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011633727 Hathi Trust] and   [https://books.google.com/books?id=18NNAAAAcAAJ Google books].
*{{citation |year=1869 |last=Van Raemdonck |first=Jean |title=Gérard de Cremer, ou Mercator, géographe flamand: Réponse à la Conférence du Dr. Breusing |location=Sint-Niklaas, Belgium}}. Reissued in facsimile by Adamant Media Corporation ({{ISBN|978-0-543-80132-6}}). It is also freely available at  [https://books.google.com/books?id=zPBZAAAAcAAJ Google books].
*{{citation |editor-last=Watelet |editor-first=Marcel |year=1997 |title=The Mercator Atlas of Europe: Facsimile of the Maps by Gerardus Mercator Contained in the Atlas of Europe, circa 1570–1572 |publisher=Walking Tree Press, PO Box 871, Pleasant Hill, OR 97455 |isbn=978-0-9659735-7-1}}. Includes 17 facsimile maps and an introduction and 4 other articles: The atlas of Europe (Marcel Watelet), Atlas, birth of a title ([[James R. Akerman]]), The map of Europe (Arthur Dürst, The British Isles (Peter M. Barber), The 1569 world map (Mireille Pastoureau). [http://www.walkingtree.com/MercatorAtlas/book.html Abstracts]. A substantial excerpt of Barber's article appeared in the [http://www.walkingtree.com/MercatorAtlas/excerptbarber.html Mercator's World magazine].
*{{citation |editor-last=Woodward |editor-first=David |title=The History of Cartography, Volume 3, Cartography in the European Renaissance |publisher=University of Chicago |year=1987 |isbn=978-0-226-90732-1 |oclc=166342669}}. Chapter 6 on ''Globes in Renaissance Europe'' by Dekker is [http://www.atlascoelestis.com/Zagrebelsky/HOC_VOLUME3_Part1_chapter6.pdf available online.] Chapter 44 on "Commercial Cartography and Map Production in the Low Countries, 1500–ca. 1672" by Cornelis Koeman, Günter Schilder, Marco van Egmond, and Peter van der Krogt is [http://m.amsweatherbook.com/books/HOC/HOC_V3_Pt2/HOC_VOLUME3_Part2_chapter44.pdf also available online.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161124100654/http://m.amsweatherbook.com/books/HOC/HOC_V3_Pt2/HOC_VOLUME3_Part2_chapter44.pdf |date=24 November 2016 }}
*{{Cite journal |last=Zuber |first=Mike A. |date=2011 |journal=Early Science and Medicine |volume=16 |issue=6 |pages=505–541 |title=The Armchair Discovery of the Unknown Southern Continent: Gerardus Mercator, Philosophical Pretensions and a Competitive Trade |url=https://www.academia.edu/1910165 |doi=10.1163/157338211X607772 }}
*{{Cite journal |last=Voets |first=Leon |date=1962 |journal=Duisburger Forschungen |volume=6 |pages=171–232 |title=Les relations commerciales entre Gérard Mercator et la maison Plantinienne à Anvers}}
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