[PDF.13vy] Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet

Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet

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 | #3318884 in Books |  2002-06-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.69 x1.42 x6.57l, | File type: PDF | 384 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| More About the Times than the Man|By John Durkee|I bought this book because I wanted to know more about the details of 15th and 16th century exploration from Europe westward. Certainly Mercator's maps were part of that. The more I wanted was about WHAT he had done and WHO he was.

I did not learn a lot about either.

Crane has done an excellent job of learni|From Publishers Weekly|In the course of a life that nearly spanned the 16th century, that glorious age of exploration, a Flemish peasant's son, Gerard Mercator, helped shape the modern perception of the planet while seldom venturing beyond the confines of a corn

Gerhard Mercator (1512-1594) was born at the dawn of the Age of Discovery, when the world was beginning to be discovered and carved up by navigators, geographers and cartographers. Mercator was the greatest and most ingenious cartographer of them all: it was he who coined the word 'atlas' and solved the riddle of converting the three-dimensional globe into a two-dimensional map while retaining true compass bearings. It is Mercator's Projection that NASA is using today to...

You easily download any file type for your device.Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet   |  Nicholas Crane.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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