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Book Synopsis The World of Gerard Mercator by : Andrew Taylor
Download or read book The World of Gerard Mercator written by Andrew Taylor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of discovery and mapmaking is one of pushing back shadows," writes Andrew Taylor, and "none in the last two thousand years achieved as much as Gerard Mercator in extending the boundaries of what could be comprehended." His life encompassed most of the turbulent, extraordinary sixteenth century, a time when revolutions would engulf religion, science, and civilization. Almost extinguished by the Inquisition, Mercator's genius lay in making maps, and his achievement did nothing less than revolutionize the study of geography. Appropriately for an era undergoing radical change, Mercator was full of contradiction, tied to knowledge and beliefs of the past while forging a new path. He never traveled beyond northern Europe, yet he had the imagination to draw the entire world anew and to solve a problem that had baffled sailors and scientists for centuries: how a curved Earth could be faithfully rendered on a flat surface so as to allow for accurate navigation. His "projection" was so visionary that it is used by NASA to map Mars today. Andrew Taylor has beautifully captured Mercator amidst the turmoil and opportunity of his times and the luminaries who inspired his talent-his teacher and business partner, Gemma Frisius; the English magus, John Dee; his benefactor, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, his cartographic collaborator, Abraham Ortelius. The World of Gerard Mercator is a masterful biography of one of the men most responsible for the modern world.
Book Synopsis Gerard Mercator's Map of the World (1569) in the Form of an Atlas by : Gerhard Mercator
Download or read book Gerard Mercator's Map of the World (1569) in the Form of an Atlas written by Gerhard Mercator and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gerard Mercator's Map of the World (1569), in the Form of an Atlas in the Maritiem Museum " Prins Hendrik" at Rotterdam, Reprod. on the Scale of the Original.. by : Gérard Mercator
Download or read book Gerard Mercator's Map of the World (1569), in the Form of an Atlas in the Maritiem Museum " Prins Hendrik" at Rotterdam, Reprod. on the Scale of the Original.. written by Gérard Mercator and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rhumb Lines and Map Wars by : Mark Monmonier
Download or read book Rhumb Lines and Map Wars written by Mark Monmonier and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 with a constant compass bearing—for true direction. But the projection's popularity among nineteenth-century sailors led to its overuse—often in inappropriate, non-navigational ways—for wall maps, world atlases, and geopolitical propaganda. Because it distorts the proportionate size of countries, the Mercator map was criticized for inflating Europe and North America in a promotion of colonialism. In 1974, German historian Arno Peters proffered his own map, on which countries were ostensibly drawn in true proportion to one another. In the ensuing "map wars" of the 1970s and 1980s, these dueling projections vied for public support—with varying degrees of success. Widely acclaimed for his accessible, intelligent books on maps and mapping, Monmonier here examines the uses and limitations of one of cartography's most significant innovations. With informed skepticism, he offers insightful interpretations of why well-intentioned clerics and development advocates rallied around the Peters projection, which flagrantly distorted the shape of Third World nations; why journalists covering the controversy ignored alternative world maps and other key issues; and how a few postmodern writers defended the Peters worldview with a self-serving overstatement of the power of maps. Rhumb Lines and Map Wars is vintage Monmonier: historically rich, beautifully written, and fully engaged with the issues of our time.
Book Synopsis Gerard Mercator's Map of the World (1569) in the Form of an Atlas in the Maritiem Museum by : Gerhard Mercator
Download or read book Gerard Mercator's Map of the World (1569) in the Form of an Atlas in the Maritiem Museum written by Gerhard Mercator and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gerard Mercator's Map of the World (1569) in the Form of an Atlas in the Maritiem Museum "Prins Hendrik" at Rotterdam by : Gerard Mercator
Download or read book Gerard Mercator's Map of the World (1569) in the Form of an Atlas in the Maritiem Museum "Prins Hendrik" at Rotterdam written by Gerard Mercator and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gerard Mercator's map of the world (1569) by : Gerard Mercator
Download or read book Gerard Mercator's map of the world (1569) written by Gerard Mercator and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gerard Mercator's Map of the World (1569) in the Form of an Atlas in the Maritien Museum "Pins Hendrik" at Rotterdam by : Gerhard Mercator
Download or read book Gerard Mercator's Map of the World (1569) in the Form of an Atlas in the Maritien Museum "Pins Hendrik" at Rotterdam written by Gerhard Mercator and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Atlas of the world by : Sjoerd De Meer
Download or read book Atlas of the world written by Sjoerd De Meer and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerard Mercator (1512-1594) was one of the most important cartographers of the 16th century. His 'Atlas of the World' is one of the highlights in the cartographic collection of the Maritime Museum Rotterdam. It was assembled out of three copies of Mercator's famous Map of the World of 1569. In this map Mercator employed a new type of projection, with increasing latitude towards the poles. This so-called 'Mercator projection' marked the beginning of a new era in the evolution of navigation charts and is still widely used today. Today, only three copies of the world map and two fragments in the 'Mercator Atlas of Europe' (collection British Library) have been preserved. But only the copy of the Maritiem Museum Rotterdam has been carefully assembled, probably by Mercator himself in the form of an atlas: the 'Atlas of the World'. It contains remarkably large maps of oceans and continents, and is therefore thought to be a prototype for a sea-atlas that was never taken into production. 0Translation of the Dutch edition (2009), 978-90-5730-611-2.
Book Synopsis Gerard Mercator's Map of the World (1569) by : Gerardus Mercator
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Book Synopsis Gerard Mercator's Map of the World by : Bert Van't Hoff
Download or read book Gerard Mercator's Map of the World written by Bert Van't Hoff and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gerard Mercator's Map of the World (1569) in the Form of an Atlas in Maritiem Museum "Prins Hendrik" at Rotterdam by : Gerhard Mercator
Download or read book Gerard Mercator's Map of the World (1569) in the Form of an Atlas in Maritiem Museum "Prins Hendrik" at Rotterdam written by Gerhard Mercator and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The World of Gerard Mercator by : Andrew Taylor
Download or read book The World of Gerard Mercator written by Andrew Taylor and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerard Mercator created the most-used map of all time. Mercator's Projection is still the standard view of the world. This text examines the evolution of mapmaking from art to science that forms the backdrop to the story of Mercator.
Book Synopsis Gerard Mercator's map of the world (1569) in the form of an atlas in the Maritiem Museum 'Prins Hendrik' at Rotterdam by :
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Book Synopsis Gerardus Mercator by : Ann Heinrichs
Download or read book Gerardus Mercator written by Ann Heinrichs and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the sixteenth-century cartographer Gerardus Mercator, who invented a method of projecting the curvature of the Earth's surface on to a flat sheet of paper.
Book Synopsis Gerard Mercator's Map of the World (1569) in the form of an atlas in the Maritiem Museum "Prins Hendrik" at Rotterdam. Reproduced on the scale of the original ... with an introduction by B. van 't Hoff by : Bert van't HOFF
Download or read book Gerard Mercator's Map of the World (1569) in the form of an atlas in the Maritiem Museum "Prins Hendrik" at Rotterdam. Reproduced on the scale of the original ... with an introduction by B. van 't Hoff written by Bert van't HOFF and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the World in 12 Maps by : Jerry Brotton
Download or read book A History of the World in 12 Maps written by Jerry Brotton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller “Maps allow the armchair traveler to roam the world, the diplomat to argue his points, the ruler to administer his country, the warrior to plan his campaigns and the propagandist to boost his cause… rich and beautiful.” – Wall Street Journal Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the world, they construct it out of the ideas of their age. In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the almost mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Brotton shows how each of his maps both influenced and reflected contemporary events and how, by considering it in all its nuances and omissions, we can better understand the world that produced it. Although the way we map our surroundings is more precise than ever before, Brotton argues that maps today are no more definitive or objective than they have ever been. Readers of this beautifully illustrated and masterfully argued book will never look at a map in quite the same way again. “A fascinating and panoramic new history of the cartographer’s art.” – The Guardian “The intellectual background to these images is conveyed with beguiling erudition…. There is nothing more subversive than a map.” – The Spectator “A mesmerizing and beautifully illustrated book.” —The Telegraph
