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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 ...
The cartography of the United States is the history of surveying and creation of maps of the United States. Maps of the New World had been produced since the 16th century. The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the original Thirteen Colonies on July 4, 1776 , during the ...
The maps of North America (1796) and Scotland (1807) are the most celebrated of his many later productions. [2] In 1804, 63 maps drawn by Arrowsmith and Samuel Lewis of Philadelphia (publisher of William Clark's manuscript map of the Northwest) [3] were published in the New and elegant General Atlas Comprising all Discoveries to the Present Time.
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.
1823 Melish map of the United States and portions of Mexico from the Atlantic Ocean to the area west of the Rocky Mountains. John Melish (June 13, 1771 – December 30, 1822) was a Scottish mapmaker who published some of the earliest maps of the United States (US). In 1816, he created the first map of the United States extending to the Pacific ...
Planisphere made by Rumold Mercator. Rumold Mercator (Leuven, 1541 – Duisburg, 31 December 1599 [1]) was a cartographer, son of Gerardus Mercator and brother of Arnold Mercator, both also cartographers. He completed some at the time unfinished projects left after his father's death and added new materials of his own research.
Mark Monmonier (United States, 1943– ), wrote How to Lie with Maps and created the Monmonier Algorithm. Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Syracuse University; Mark Newman (1968– ), developed area contiguous cartograms using a diffusion-based method; Rudi Ogrissek (1926–1999) Rafael Palacios (1905–1993), prolific map-drawer for major US ...
The sinusoidal projection is a pseudocylindrical equal-area map projection, sometimes called the Sanson–Flamsteed or the Mercator equal-area projection. Jean Cossin of Dieppe was one of the first mapmakers to use the sinusoidal, using it in a world map in 1570.