[PDF.51wf] The World of Gerard Mercator: The Mapmaker Who Revolutionized Geography

The World of Gerard Mercator: The Mapmaker Who Revolutionized Geography

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 | #10274343 in Books |  2004-11-01 | Format: Bargain Price | PDF # 1 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Nancy H. Stock|Good book|3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Mercator - An interesting life.|By Customer|I had reservations about how exciting the life of a mapmaker who never left Europe could be, but I was pleasantly surprised with how readable and interesting Taylor makes Mercator's life. As a s|From Publishers Weekly|Maps today strike us as fairly innocuous charts of the world. But 500 years ago, an era when political power and religious authority were in flux, maps were fraught with implications that made owning the "wrong" map a cause for execution.

A biography of the mapmaker who revolutionized geography

The story of discovery and mapmaking is one of pushing back shadows," writes Andrew Taylor, and "none in the last two thousand years achieved as much as Gerard Mercator in extending the boundaries of what could be comprehended." His life encompassed most of the turbulent, extraordinary sixteenth century, a time when revolutions would engulf religion, science, and civilization. Almost extinguished by the In...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.The World of Gerard Mercator: The Mapmaker Who Revolutionized Geography   |  Andrew Taylor. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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