The World of Gerard Mercator, Biography, Literature and Literary studies – Biography and non-fiction prose – Biography: general – Biography: historical, political and military, Paperback, Andrew Taylor
The World of Gerard MercatorThe Mapmaker Who Revolutionised Geography
Author(s): Andrew Taylor
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom
Imprint: HarperPerennial
ISBN-13: 9780007100811, 978-0007100811
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The true story of Gerard Mercator, the greatest map-maker of all time, who was condemned to death as a heretic.
Geographie and Chronologie I may call the Sunne and the Moone, the right eye and the left, of all history.
In The World of Gerard Mercator, Andrew Taylor chronicles both the story of a great astronomer and mathematician, who was condemned to death as a heretic, and the history of that most fascinating conjunction of science and art: the drawing of maps. Gerard Mercator was born in Flanders in 1512. In addition to creating accurate globes of the earth and the stars, he was the first person to use latitude and longitude for navigation and he created the most-used map of all time: Mercators Projection is still the standard view of the.
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Details:The World of Gerard Mercator, Biography, Literature and Literary studies – Biography and non-fiction prose – Biography: general – Biography: historical, political and military, Paperback, Andrew Taylor
The World of Gerard MercatorThe Mapmaker Who Revolutionised Geography
Author(s): Andrew Taylor
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom
Imprint: HarperPerennial
ISBN-13: 9780007100811, 978-0007100811
Synopsis
The true story of Gerard Mercator, the greatest map-maker of all time, who was condemned to death as a heretic.
Geographie and Chronologie I may call the Sunne and the Moone, the right eye and the left, of all history.
In The World of Gerard Mercator, Andrew Taylor chronicles both the story of a great astronomer and mathematician, who was condemned to death as a heretic, and the history of that most fascinating conjunction of science and art: the drawing of maps. Gerard Mercator was born in Flanders in 1512. In addition to creating accurate globes of the earth and the stars, he was the first person to use latitude and longitude for navigation and he created the most-used map of all time: Mercators Projection is still the standard view of the.
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The World of Gerard MercatorThe Mapmaker Who Revolutionised Geography
Author(s): Andrew Taylor
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom
Imprint: HarperPerennial
ISBN-13: 9780007100811, 978-0007100811
Synopsis
The true story of Gerard Mercator, the greatest map-maker of all time, who was condemned to death as a heretic.
Geographie and Chronologie I may call the Sunne and the Moone, the right eye and the left, of all history.
In The World of Gerard Mercator, Andrew Taylor chronicles both the story of a great astronomer and mathematician, who was condemned to death as a heretic, and the history of that most fascinating conjunction of science and art: the drawing of maps. Gerard Mercator was born in Flanders in 1512. In addition to creating accurate globes of the earth and the stars, he was the first person to use latitude and longitude for navigation and he created the most-used map of all time: Mercators Projection is still the standard view of the.
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