| Description |
xiii, 397 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 20 cm |
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regular print |
| Summary |
The sixteenth century, the 'Age of Discovery' was a time of extraordinary intellectual and scientific expansion. At the very forefront of this new knowledge were the cartographers who were painstakingly piecing together the evidence that would create a complete picture of our planet. This is the story of the greatest of them all, a cobbler's boy who became the world's first scientific mapmaker. The first to coin the term 'atlas;' Mercator solved the dimensional riddle that had vexed mapmakers for so long: how best to convert the three-dimensional globe into a two-dimensional map? His solution - Mercator's Projection - entirely revolutionised our world view |
| Notes |
Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594.
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Cartographers -- Biography.
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Cartographers -- Belgium -- Biography.
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Cartography -- History -- 16th century.
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Cartography -- 16th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
075381692X (paperback) |
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