Geradus Mercator was the first person to use the word atlas to describe a book of maps. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Google has marked the birthday of 16th century cartographer Gerard Mercator, who ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - Google has marked the birthday of 16th century cartographer Gerard Mercator, who coined the term atlas in reference to a collection of maps, with a Doodle on its homepage, The ...

Cartographer, philosopher and mathematician Gerhard Mercator, who lived and died in the German city of Duisburg, was born 500 years ago. It was a time of optimism, of departure. Seafarers discovered ...

To the Editors of the CRIMSON: In your issue for 19 December, G. Mercator persuasively argues the case for geography as a field of study, and for maps as tools of study. The first paragraph of his ...