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Rumold Mercator (Leuven, 1541 – Duisburg, 31 December 1599) was a cartographer and the son of cartographer Gerardus Mercator. He completed some at the time unfinished projects left after his father's death and added new materials of his own research.
After Mercator’s death in 1594 his son Rumold (ca. 1545/50-1599) published as large a part as possible of his father’s posthumous cosmography. He combined the four parts of Tabulae Geographicae with 34 completed but never published maps (Iceland, British Isles and the North European and East European countries).
Rumold Mercator, Flemish, c. 1545–1599. Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio (1569) 11-7⁄16 x 20½ in. (29 x 52 cm) Geneva, 1587. Detail, p. 2. The original version of this map was produced in 1569 by Gerard Mercator, perhaps the greatest of the early cartographers.
This Rumold Mercator map has been ascribed with two dates, 1587 (c. 1620). Barry L. Ruderman’s map article lays out that this map was first printed in 1587, and was contained within the 1595 and 1602 Mercator atlas’s.
- Patrick Shekleton
The next year his son Rumold published the last of the three parts of his famous atlas, which contains this map. It is the first full map of the Arctic, an expansion of Mercator's inset of the area in his world map of 1569, here showing recent Northwest and Northeast Passage discoveries.
This Rumold Mercator map has been ascribed with two dates, 1587 (c. 1620). Barry L. Ruderman’s map article lays out that this map was first printed in 1587, and was contained within the 1595 and 1602 Mercator atlas’s.
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Rumold Mercator (1541 - December 31, 1599) was a Dutch cartographer, son of the famous cartographer Gerard Mercator (1512 - 1594), and the caretaker of his illustrious father's work. He began producing maps prior to his father's 1594 death, and completed much of his work that was left unfinished.
