Author: CRANE, NICHOLAS
Title: Mercator : the man who mapped the planet
Description: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2002. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine. very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and sharp-cornered.Physical description; xiii. 348 pages. 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color). maps ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary; A biography of Gerard Mercator. the sixteenth-century mapmaker who created the first two-dimensional projection of the globe. Gerhard Mercator (1512-1594) was born at the dawn of the Age of Discovery. when the world was beginning to be discovered and carved up by navigators. geographers and cartographers. Mercator was the greatest and most ingenious cartographer of them all: it was he who coined the word 'atlas' and solved the riddle of converting the three-dimensional globe into a two-dimensional map while retaining true compass bearings. It is Mercator's Projection that NASA is using today to map Mars. How did Mercator reconcile his religious beliefs with a science that would make Christian maps obsolete? How did a man whose imagination roamed continents endure imprisonment by the Inquisition? Crane brings this great man vividly to life. underlying it with the maps themselves: maps that brought to a rapt public wonders as remarkable as today's cyber-world. Nick Crane's new book is a scintillating account of the climax of the map-makers' century (and of Mercator's life) - the miraculous compression of the planet which revolutionised navigation and has become the most common worldview we have. Subjects; Mercator. Gerhard (1512-1594). Mercator. Gerhard (1512-1594) - Biography. 16th century. Cartographers. Cartography - History. Cartographers. Cartography. Cartographers - Biography. Cartography - History - 16th century. Cartographers - Netherlands - Biography. Cartographers - Belgium - Biography. World. - History of cartography. - [literature] - 2002. maps. Mercator. Gerard. Science - History. Biography & autobiography: historical. political & military ; Map making & projections. Biography & Autobiography / General. Technology & Engineering / Cartography. Cartographers ; Biography ; Cartography ; History ; 16th century. Genres; Bibliography. Biographies. Biography. Illustrated. ISBN: 0297646656. Weight in Kg appr.:

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