Picture maps and globes were made in early Babylonia and Greece. The first map-maker in the modern sense of the term was Gerardus Mercator, a Fleming, who produced his famous projection in 153 S and his terrestrial globe in 1541.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 935, 4 December 1933, Page 10
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