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 âatlasâ and solved the riddle of converting the three-dimensional globe into a two-dimensional map while retaining true compass bearings. It is Mercatorâs Projection that NASA are 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 todayâs cyber-world.
Nick Crane's new book is a scintillating account of the climax of the map-makersâ century (and of Mercatorâs life) - the miraculous compression of the planet which revolutionised navigation and has become the most common worldview we have.
Categories:
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Leaders & Notable People
- Political
- Leaders & Notable People
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Author : Crane, Nicholas
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2002-06-27
Number Of Pages : 384
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0297646656
ISBN-13 : 9780297646655
Item weight : 1.59 lb
Dimensions : 1.42 in x 6.46 in x 9.29 in
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