Atlas

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Atlas

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Atlas

This word came to be associated with a book of maps starting in the late 16th century. The son of Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator published a book of his father's maps with a picture on the title page showing the Titan Atlas supporting the world on his shoulders.