Atlas, sive, Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura
Gerhard Mercator's 1595 atlas, printed in Duisburg by Albert Buyss and issued by Mercator's heirs, is a Latin collection of regional maps for scholars and the learned public. Its copperplate maps show coastlines, rivers, towns and hachured mountains, with ornate cartouches, compass roses and decorative sea-waves; a designer might take the cartouche scrollwork and the stippled, wave-patterned water as models for historical framing.
