The World of Gerald Mercetor : The Mapmaker Who Revolutionised Geography
by Andrew Taylor
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0007201729
- ISBN 13
- 9780007201723
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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 to the impossible challenge of reproducing the spherical world on a flat sheet of paper was a considerable achievement in itself something geographers and map-makers had been trying to do for centuries, but Mercator also created the map of the world that would form the basis of the modern age, an image of the continents for the common man. Until Mercators Projection, maps offered a pictorial encyclopaedia to an illiterate world, and that world stretched far beyond the knowledge and travels of most mapmakers. It is this evolution of mapmaking from art to science that forms the backdrop to the story of Mercator, from the days of Herodotus and Strabo when fabulous creatures were supposed to inhabit the fringes of the world to the great mappae mundi of Hereford and Ebsdorf. The Greek geographer Pytheas claimed to have visited the far north of Britain to establish the limits of the habitable world; but further north, he claimed that the earth, air and sea coalesced into a jellyfish-like gelatinous suspension that made life impossible. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Geography & Maps. ISBN: 0007201729. ISBN/EAN: 9780007201723. Inventory No: 24020110.. 9780007201723
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- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24020110
- Title
- The World of Gerald Mercetor : The Mapmaker Who Revolutionised Geography
- Author
- Andrew Taylor
- Format/Binding
- Medium Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0007201729
- ISBN 13
- 9780007201723
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Biography & Autobiography; The World of Gerald Mercetor : The Mapmaker Who Revolutionised Geography
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- Biography & Autobiography; Geography & Maps;
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