First map maker to ever use latitude and longitude to make maps for navigating the seas is profiled by this science resource.

Article places Mercator's new map in the context of the Renaissance's scientific and exploratory explosion and applauds his work for its clarity.

Traveling to find the answers to religious questions only managed to interest Mercator in cartography. Read a biography of the map maker.

Encyclopedia article profiles the Flemish cartographer who held the chair of cosmology at Duisburg and who made a celestial globe and an atlas.

Encyclopedia briefly introduces the cartographer and mathematician and offers textual links to learn about his maps and Mercator projections.

Most accurate mapmaker of his time was the first to use longitude and latitude and to make a globe of the heavens. Read a biography.