"When I saw that Moses’ version of the Genesis of the world did not fit sufficiently in many ways with Aristotle and t…"

"Since my youth geography has been for me the primary object of study. When I was engaged in it, having applied the co…"

"D.O.M.S. GERARDVS MERCATOR HIC SITVS EST IVLIACENSIVM PROVINCIA ORDVNDVS NATVS RVOELMVNDÆ FLANDORVM AN. DNI. M. D. XI…"

"Dedicated to God, most good, most great (DOMS). Here is buried Gerhard Mercator who lived in the duchy of Jülich but …"

"It was the custom of our mutual friendship and intimacy that, during three whole years, neither of us lacked the othe…"

"Mercator knew Palestine better than any place outside the Low Countries. He had grown up with its miracles and revela…"

"Although he ate and drank very little, he kept an excellent table, well furnished with the necessities of civilised l…"

"Openly expressing your aversion to Marxism from behind the Iron Curtain would have meant social opprobrium at best—bu…"

"Even after the Cold War ended and most of the world’s communist regimes collapsed, biting the nourishing hand of indu…"

"We should cherish the naysayers. The more mud they fling, the better. Anti-capitalists, postmodern relativists, and P…"