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Harpercollins, 2004. First Harper Collins Paperback Edition. . Soft cover. Near Fine. pp.291 with index clean tight copy with some tanning to text pages and black line lower edge Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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World of Gerard Mercator The Mapmaker Who Revolutionised geography Paperback - 2005
by Taylor, Andrew
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- Title World of Gerard Mercator The Mapmaker Who Revolutionised geography
- Author Taylor, Andrew
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- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 291
- Publisher Harper Collins, London
- Date 2005-01
- ISBN 9780007201723
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London, UK: HarperCollins, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 292pp. Laminated printed light card covers. Corners a little dog-eared. Rear cover has an indentation which has torn cover and last 4 pages. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 8vo.Tells the story of the man who over three centuries ago designed a map that is still today the generally accepted way of representing the globe on a flat sheet of paper.
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Collins, UK, 2004. Medium Trade Paperback. Very Good. Medium Trade Paperback. 291 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Collins, UK, 2004. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine has minimal reading creases. . Edges of pages are lightly browned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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 world, the one we all envisage when we think of a map of the globe. Simply finding the best solution…
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