TRIVIA BITS ... THE ATLAS
A book of maps is called an atlas as the innovative sixteenth-century Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator’s book of maps detailing various portions of Europe sported on its cover a picture of the Greek Titan Atlas holding the world on his shoulders – and the book became known as The Atlas.
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