Reviews the life and career of sixteenth century cartographer Gerardus Mercator and, through samples of his work, isolates characteristics of his personal script to give calligraphic evidence of his authorship. (MB)

Discusses the effects of variability in the shapes of letters on their legibility; summarizes experiments to compare the relative advantages of cursive and block capital writing, to determine the time taken to prepare handwriting movements, and to assess the variability of the timing of movements in handwriting. (Author/GT)