The World of Gerard Mercator The Mapmaker who Revolutionized Geography
Year: 2004 Language: english Author: Andrew Taylor Genre: History Publisher: Walker Publishing ISBN: 978-0-802-71806-8 Format: EPUB Quality: eBook Pages count: n/a Description: The history of discovery and mapmaking is fascinating; famous people, explorers, kings, unknown figures, lost maps and ancient documents. Some chartmakers were sailors or traders themselves, trying to prepare reliable charts for their own use, but many were scholars who never went to sea. But none, in the last centuries, achieved as much as Gerard Mercator in extending the boundaries of navigation and comprehension. This book is the history of Gerard Mercator, his inventions and his time. The history of the idea, at that time not at all shared and accepted, that the earth was spherical, maps should necessarily contain deformations and therefore the challenge was to choose the most convenient deformation, which would allow navigator to use compass, following a rhumb line as a straight one.
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The World of Gerard Mercator The Mapmaker who Revolutionized Geography
Language: english
Author: Andrew Taylor
Genre: History
Publisher: Walker Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-802-71806-8
Format: EPUB
Quality: eBook
Pages count: n/a
Description: The history of discovery and mapmaking is fascinating; famous people, explorers, kings, unknown figures, lost maps and ancient documents. Some chartmakers were sailors or traders themselves, trying to prepare reliable charts for their own use, but many were scholars who never went to sea. But none, in the last centuries, achieved as much as Gerard Mercator in extending the boundaries of navigation and comprehension. This book is the history of Gerard Mercator, his inventions and his time. The history of the idea, at that time not at all shared and accepted, that the earth was spherical, maps should necessarily contain deformations and therefore the challenge was to choose the most convenient deformation, which would allow navigator to use compass, following a rhumb line as a straight one.
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