Rhumb Lines and Map Wars  -  Mark Monmonier

A Social History of the Mercator Projection

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In Rhumb Lines and Map Wars, Mark Monmonier offers an insightful, richly illustrated account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator's legacy. He takes us back to 1569, when Mercator announced a clever method of portraying the earth on a flat surface, creating the first projection to take into account the earth's roundness. As Monmonier shows, mariners benefited most from Mercator's projection, which allowed for easy navigation of the high seas with rhumb lines—clear-cut routes... Lees verder...

2004 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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2004 Uitgever: University Of Chicago Press 256 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0226534316 ISBN-13: 9780226534312

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