The Map Room

Richard Marsden reviews The World of Gerard Mercator by Andrew Taylor: “Taylor does a good job of putting him into both a historic and a cartographic context, and does his best to explain Mercator with the relatively limited information available. My main criticism of the book involves the images. Many of the maps are asking for large full color reproductions — something this small format black & white book cannot provide.”

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