The World: Mercator and Hondius, 1619 Valentine's Day Picks this phone case features original

this phone case features original art that was made for post cards printed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

and it helped to establish Hondius's reputation as a leading cartographer

He received only a basic public education

government and one of the foremost scientific institutions in the country leading up to the Civil War

architecture

The World: Mercator and Hondius, 1619 Valentine's Day Picks this phone case features originalORBIS TERRAE COMPENDIOSA DESCRIPTIO quam ex Magna Universali Gerardi Mercatoris Domino Richardo Gartho, dated 1587. An elaborate strapwork border surrounds this beautiful double hemisphere map, and an armillary sphere and 32 point compass rose are tucked between the hemispheres. Rumold Mercator based this map on his father's great world map of 1569. The North Pole is depicted as a landmass surrounding a sea from which four rivers radiate and there is