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Ann Heinrichs

Gerardus Mercator: Father of Modern Mapmaking

Library Binding (Compass Point Books Sept. 1, 2007) , 1st edition
Sixteenth-century geographer Gerardus Mercator was born in 1512 in Rupelmonde, Flanders. He lived during a time of religious strife and for a time was imprisoned for heresy. Mercator began his career as a maker of mathematical instruments, but he won lasting renown with his world map of 1569, which introduced a new way of showing the spherical earth on a flat sheet of paper. This method, called the Mercator projection, is still used today. His 1585 book, titled Atlas, was the first to use that word to describe a collection of maps.
Series
Signature Lives
ISBN
0756533120 /
Pages
112
Weight
12.6 oz.
Dimensions
9.2 x 6.6 in.

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