The World of Gerard Mercator: The Mapmaker Who Revolutionized Geography

Andrew Taylor

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Idioma: inglés

Editorial: Walker & Company, 2004

0802713777 / 9780802713773

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Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks.272 pages clean and tight. Dimensions: 14.5 x 74.2 x 21 cm. The story of discovery and mapmaking is one of pushing back shadows, and no one in the last two thousand years achieved as much as Gerard Mercator in extending the boundaries of the known world. His life spanned most of the turbulent, extraordinary sixteenth century, a time when war rolled across Europe and revolutions engulfed religion, science, and civilization. Almost extinguished by the Inquisition. Mercator survived to bring his genius to making maps, and his achievement was nothing less than to revolutionize the study of geography. Appropriately for an era undergoing radical change. Mercator was full of contradiction himself, tied to knowledge and beliefs of the past, yet unafraid to forge a new path. He never traveled beyond northern Europe, yet he had the imagination to draw the entire world anew and to solve a problem that had baffled sailors and scientists for centuries: how a curved Earth could be faithfully rendered on a flat surface to allow for accurate navigation. His "projection" was so visionary that it is used by NASA to map Mars today. Size: 8vo.

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Título
The World of Gerard Mercator: The Mapmaker Who Revolutionized Geography
Autor
Andrew Taylor
Editorial
Walker & Company
Año de publicación
2004
Estado
Very Good
Sobrecubierta
Very Good
Encuadernación
Hard Cover
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0802713777
ISBN 13
9780802713773

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