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Gerardus Mercator: Father of Modern Mapmaking (Signature Lives: Scientific Revolution series)
by Heinrichs ; Ann
Binding: Library Binding, 1st edition, 112 pages
Publisher: Compass Point Books
Weight: 0.75 pound
Dimension: H: 0.7 x L: 9.1 x W: 6.1 inches
ISBN 10: 0756533120
ISBN 13: 9780756533120
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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.

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