Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet by Nicholas Crane, ISBN 0-8050-6624-1, Henry Holt & Company, Inc.; July 2002
Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura (Atlas, or Cosmographical Meditations on the Frame for the World and its Form) by Gerardus Mercator, Duisburg, 1595; Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. ISBN 1-891788-26-4
Gerard Mercator: His Life And Works, Elial F. Hall (1878), Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York, Vol. 10 pp. 163–196