Authors:  Gerardus Mercator (*1512 – †1594)

was a 16th-century German-Netherlandish cartographer, geographer and cosmographer.

Claudius Ptolemy Latin: Claudius Ptolemaeus; (c. AD 100 – c.170)

was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer and astrologer. He lived in the city of Alexandria in the Roman province of Egypt

Map Title: Universalis Tabula Iuxta Ptolemaeum, Amsterdam, 1578

Description:  Gorgeous  Mercator's map of the World, based upon the writings of Claudius Ptolemy, from a later edition of Gerard Mercator's Tabulae geographicae CI. Ptolemaei ad mentem autoris restitutae et emendatae per G. Mercatorem, first published in 1578..