Arnold Mercator

Arnold or Arnoldus Mercator (Leuven, 31 August 1537 – Duisburg, 6 July 1587) was a Southern Netherlandish cartographer, mathematician and classical philologist.

Arnold was the eldest child of Gerardus Mercator and Barbara Schellekens from Leuven, who married in 1536.

Gerardus Mercator may have been attracted by the Duke's intention to found a university in Duisburg.

[6] From a bird's eye view, the city map shows not only the streets with 196 location information, but also the individual buildings in three-dimensional form and relatively true to scale (scale 1: 2450) in the format 109 × 170 cm.

He made, albeit less elaborate, city plans of Windeck, Homberg[9] and Trier.

The map was copied by Hans Weirich in 1995 and reissued with the help of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein - Oberberg department.