History Prints First Map Of Arctic & North Pole by Mercator - Circa 1606 - Print Only - 16 x 24 inches
PERFECT WALL DECOR: Your print fits into a standard frame size to make it unique to you and your home, without having to pay the price for a custom frame. Sure to match any home decor. HIGH QUALITY MATERIALS: Ensuring that you can enjoy your map for years to come,  we use only the best available methods and materials including museum-grade, acid-free, matte finish paper, as well as archival inks rated to last a lifetime. We hand package your map rolled in a rigid mailing tube to ensure that it will be safe and protected during shipment. PRINTED ONLY WHEN YOU ORDER: To ensure that your print is of the best quality, we print one-at-a-time, on demand. We use the finest class of large-format, commercial photographic printers, archival paper and inks to ensure that you receive a high quality, made-to-last print. Nothing is printed until you place your order, ensuring you the same quality as a custom print without the price. FINE REPRODUCTION: We digitally clean and restore all our products to remove distracting flaws while carefully maintaining its historical character and nature. THE PERFECT GIFT: This print is perfect for the hard to buy member of your family who appreciates history, geography, cartography or fine art.
Modern climate scientists are looking hard at historic Arctic maps. As winter sea ice shrinks and cracks appear, they try to understand the reasons for these changes, and determine what we should expect in the future. Centuries ago, though, when people tried to map the Arctic, they weren't too concerned with what was happening to it- they just wanted to know what the heck was up there. And, if they didn't know, they pretty much made it up. Such was the case with the first known map of the Arctic: the Septentrionalium Terrarum, which is filled with magnetic stones, strange whirlpools, and other colorful guesses. The map's creator, the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator, is best known for the "Mercator projection," the now-famed method of taking the curved lines of the Earth and transforming them into straight ones that can be used on a flat map. The Mercator projection was invented for sailors, who, thanks to its design, could use it to plot a straight-line course from their point of origin to their destination. In 1569, Mercator came out with a map of the world based on this principal.
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History Prints
{"Date First Available": "February 20, 2017", "Brand": "History Prints", "Map Type": "Historical", "Paper Finish": "Matte", "Product Dimensions": "24\"L x 16\"W"}