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  2. Mercator 1569 world map - Wikipedia

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    Mercator's 1569 map was a large planisphere, [3] i.e. a projection of the spherical Earth onto the plane. It was printed in eighteen separate sheets from copper plates engraved by Mercator himself. [4]

  3. Mercator projection - Wikipedia

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    For example, a Mercator map printed in a book might have an equatorial width of 13.4 cm corresponding to a globe radius of 2.13 cm and an RF of approximately ⁠ 1 / 300M ⁠ (M is used as an abbreviation for 1,000,000 in writing an RF) whereas Mercator's original 1569 map has a width of 198 cm corresponding to a globe radius of 31.5 cm and an ...

  4. Gerardus Mercator - Wikipedia

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    Gerardus Mercator (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ r ɑːr d ə s m ɜːr ˈ k eɪ t ər /; [a] [b] [c] 5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) [d] was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer.He is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing (rhumb lines) as straight lines—an innovation that is still employed in nautical charts.

  5. Early world maps - Wikipedia

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    Mercator Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio, 1569. High res image. Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator world map of 1569 introduced a cylindrical map projection that became the standard map projection known as the Mercator projection. It was a large planisphere measuring 202 by 124 cm (80 by 49 in), printed in eighteen ...

  6. List of map projections - Wikipedia

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    Gott, Goldberg and Vanderbei’s double-sided disk map was designed to minimize all six types of map distortions. Not properly "a" map projection because it is on two surfaces instead of one, it consists of two hemispheric equidistant azimuthal projections back-to-back. [5] [6] [7] 1879 Peirce quincuncial: Other Conformal Charles Sanders Peirce

  7. List of cartographers - Wikipedia

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    Battista Agnese's 1544 world map Jodocus Hondius' Leo Belgicus (1611) Gerardus Mercator's 1587 world map World map from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius. Giovanni Battista Agnese (c. 1500–1564), Genoese, cartographer, author of numerous nautical atlases

  8. The Overdue, Under-Told Story Of The Clitoris

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    Chances are high that one of the first things that comes to mind is not Earth itself, but a map of it. One map in particular: Credit: Getty Images. Known as the Mercator projection, after the cartographer Gerardus Mercator, who first conceived of it in 1569, it’s ubiquitous in classrooms around the world. The map demands authority.

  9. Map projection - Wikipedia

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    The most well-known map projection is the Mercator projection. [ 7 ] : 45 This map projection has the property of being conformal . However, it has been criticized throughout the 20th century for enlarging regions further from the equator.