The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet
The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet
The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet
The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet
The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet
The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet
The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet
The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet
The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet
The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet
The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet
The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet
The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet
The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet
The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet
The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet
The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet
The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet
The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet
The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet
The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet
The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet
The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet
The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet
The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet

The Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet

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Mercator: The Man who mapped the Planet by Nicholas Crane

"Mercator is a biography of the man who created the first modern map of the world." "Born into the age of discovery, Gerard Mercator lived through an extraordinary era of intellectual and scientific expansion. At the centre of this exploratory vortex were the cartographers who were painstakingly piecing together the evidence that would create a complete picture of the planet. Mercator was the greatest of them all - a poor cobbler's boy who attended one of Europe's top universities, was persecuted and imprisoned by the Inquisition, yet survived to produce his eponymous projection and to coin the term 'atlas'. Devoutly religious, yet gripped by the quest for geographical truth, Mercator struggled to reconcile the two, a conflict mirrored by the clash in Europe between humanism and the Church." Mercator solved the dimensional riddle that had vexed cosmographers for so How could the three-dimensional globe be converted into a two-dimensional map while retaining true compass bearings? The Mercator Projection revolutionised navigation and has become the most common worldview.

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Published: 2002
  • Edition:1st Ed
  • Pages: 348
  • ISBN: 9780297646655

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