This link is to the 1630 Mercator projection. It's not the map itself I am interested in, it is the Latin text particularly under the queen (mid bottom). Google translate didn't do a good job and I even changed all the V's to U's and still couldn't read it properly.
Does anyone here know Latin that can help?
Thanks so much =)
Although the map does show strong signs of colonialism and its binary way of thinking, it truly is a beautiful illustration.
Quicquid habet Ganges et diues America quicquid, quas et opes mittunt Arabes, Indi, Africa, Seres, per maria et terras ad publica commoda gnavus, huc fert Mercatur, paucisque ut plurima dicam. Pars tenet haec mundi reliquas celeberrima partes.
Whatever the Ganges has, and whatever a rich man has in America, and the riches which the Arabs, Indians, Africa, and the Silk lands send, industrious across land and sea for the public good, here Mercator tells [it], and in small [writing] so that I may say as much as possible. This most famous part of the world holds the remaining parts.
