The World: Mercator and Hondius, 1619 Valentine's Day Picks architecture

architecture

Japan is shown in a kite-shaped configuration

and it helped to establish Hondius's reputation as a leading cartographer

government and one of the foremost scientific institutions in the country leading up to the Civil War

The World: Mercator and Hondius, 1619 Valentine's Day Picks architectureORBIS TERRAE COMPENDIOSA DESCRIPTIO quam ex Magna Universali Gerardi Mercatoris Domino Richardo Gartho, dated 1587. An elaborate strapwork border surrounds this beautiful double hemisphere map, and an armillary sphere and 32 point compass rose are tucked between the hemispheres. Rumold Mercator based this map on his father's great world map of 1569. The North Pole is depicted as a landmass surrounding a sea from which four rivers radiate and there is