For those who only know the name Mercator through the controversial map projection that bears his name, historian Andrew Taylor has done a great service. In “The World of Gerard Mercator ...

Odd cartographic creations like ‘Fool’s Cap Map of the World,’ ‘Leo Belgicus,’ and ‘The Porcineograph’ make the classic Mercator Projection look outright dull.

The Mercator map was created in 1569 for nautical travel. As you get closer to the edges of a Mercator map, continents' land masses increasingly become distorted. (Wikimedia Commons) ...

The map that resulted, Mercator’s 1569 map of the world, is about 7 feet tall and shows just how far cartography had come from the mappaemundi. Here one sees a world very close to the one we ...

In 1569, the great cartographer, Gerardus Mercator, created a revolutionary new map based on a cylindrical projection. The new map was well-suited to nautical navigation since every line on the ...

When you think of the world, the Mercator projection is probably the map that comes to mind. It's everywhere: atlases, school walls, even Google Maps. It's also, very, very wrong, and it's been ...

Mercator also created an important mapping technique. ... Mercator, who was born in Flanders, now in modern Belgium, changed the face of 16th century maps. His 1569 map was his most influential, ...

The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on maps, making them appear different to reality. advertisement.

Currently, British schools use and teach the Mercator projection map, made by Flemish cartographer Geradus Mercator in 1569. This 400-year-old map was created at a time when Europe was seeking to ...

When you think of the world, the Mercator projection is probably the map that comes to mind. It's everywhere: atlases, school walls, even Google Maps. See also: Australia has drifted about five ...

Many of the maps we use today are based on a solution created by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer. In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection.