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The world of Gerard Mercator : the mapmaker who revolutionized geography

by Andrew Taylor

A biography of sixteenth-century cartographer Gerard Mercator and his development of the map projection that bears his name. It examines how his method of representing a curved Earth on a flat surface revolutionised maritime navigation and the study of geography.

Accession 20514 ISBN 0802713777 Publisher Walker and Company
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