Next to it is a comparative scale depicting twelve measurements from various countries and disciplines
" produced around 1540 in Basel
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Counted among King's sitters were Sequoyahas
This was the most complete graphic account yet made of the Native American presence in western North America
Mercator, Gerard (1512-1594). Tab.x.Europae Macedoniam Epirum ac Peloponnesum [Macedonia, Epirus, Peloponnesus]. Amsterdam, 1578. 11_3_23 Next to it is aGerard Mercator (15121594)Tab. X. Europ. Macedonia, Epirus, et PeloponnesusAmsterdam, 1578Copperplate engravingSheet size: 19 x 22 inches This elegant and historically rich map of Macedonia, Epirus, and the Peloponnesus was engraved by Gerard Mercator and published in the 1578 edition of his famed Ptolemaic Atlas, one of the great cartographic achievements of the Renaissance. Grounded in the geographic framework of Claudius Ptolemy, Mercator's map