Rumold Mercator
{{Short description|16th century Flemish cartographer}}
Image:Mercator World Map.jpg made by Rumold Mercator]]
Rumold Mercator (Leuven, 1541 – Duisburg, 31 December 1599Heinrich Averdunk: Die Nachkommen des Geographen Heinrich Mercator. Schriften des Duisburger Museumsvereins, Band V. Duisburger Museumsverein, Duisburg 1913, p. 17.) was a cartographer, son of Gerardus Mercator and brother of Arnold Mercator, both also cartographers.
He completed some at the time unfinished projects left after his father's death and added new materials of his own research.
Biography
Rumold Mercator was the youngest son of cartographer Gerardus Mercator and his first wife Barbara Schellekens.{{cite book |last1=Kultur- und Stadthistorisches Museum Duisburg |editor1-last=Föllmer |editor1-first=Michael |title=Die Welt des Gerhard Mercator |date=2006 |publisher=Mercator-Verlag |isbn=9783874633932 |page=86 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QOKAAAAAMAAJ |access-date=29 December 2021}} He rose to fame in his father's wake when, in 1587, he published a copy of his father's Ptolemaic map of the world from 1569, revised in its overall graphic design.{{cite book |last1=Crane |first1=Nicholas |title=Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet |date=2014 |publisher=Henry Holt and Company |isbn=9781466880139 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-AYDBAAAQBAJ |access-date=29 December 2021}}{{cite book |editor1-last=Lehn |editor1-first=Antje |editor2-last=Gartner |editor2-first=Georg |editor3-last=Cartwright |editor3-first=William |title=Cartography and Art |date=2009 |publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg |isbn=9783540685692 |page=170 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RU-FUO4r8JwC |access-date=29 December 2021}}
In 1595, a year after his father's death, Rumold Mercator published a supplement of 34 maps to his father's Tabulae Geographicae map book. It contains 29 maps, engraved by Gerardus Mercator, of the missing parts of Europe (Iceland, the British Isles and the Northern and Eastern European countries).
To complete the map collection quickly, Rumold added his own world map from 1587 and had four maps of the continents from his father's large world map from 1569 copied by his nephews Gerardus Mercator junior and Michael Mercator, sons of Arnold Mercator. The title page was also an emergency solution: it is the title of the Ptolemy edition of 1578, on which the new title was pasted in letterpress.
Rumold Mercator also released a 'complete edition' with all 107 maps. In fact, this edition is no more than a single-bound reissue of the four series Tabulae Geographicae with the new addition.
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