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A World of Innovation : Cartography in the Time of Gerhard Mercator.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (279 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781443875707
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A World of InnovationDDC classification:
  • 526.092
LOC classification:
  • GA923.5.M5 -- .W675 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 500 YEARS OF MERCATOR -- PART 1 -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- PART 2 -- CHAPTER SIX -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- PART 3 -- CHAPTER NINE -- CHAPTER TEN -- CHAPTER ELEVEN -- PART 4 -- CHAPTER TWELVE -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.
Summary: Gerhard Mercator (1512-1594) was the most important cartographer and globemaker of the 16th century. He is particularly remembered for his publication Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura (1595), and for his specific cylindrical map projection (1569), which is still used widely today. This book brings together the latest research on Mercator with a view to his sources and his relationships with other scientific disciplines and cartographers of his time, as well as his role in the wider worlds of Renaissance cartography and Humanism.
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Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 500 YEARS OF MERCATOR -- PART 1 -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- PART 2 -- CHAPTER SIX -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- PART 3 -- CHAPTER NINE -- CHAPTER TEN -- CHAPTER ELEVEN -- PART 4 -- CHAPTER TWELVE -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.

Gerhard Mercator (1512-1594) was the most important cartographer and globemaker of the 16th century. He is particularly remembered for his publication Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura (1595), and for his specific cylindrical map projection (1569), which is still used widely today. This book brings together the latest research on Mercator with a view to his sources and his relationships with other scientific disciplines and cartographers of his time, as well as his role in the wider worlds of Renaissance cartography and Humanism.

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