Author: N. CRANE
Title: Mercator, the man who mapped the planet
Description: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 348. An enthralling biography of the man who created the first real map of the world and changed civilizationnBorn at the dawn of the age of discovery, Gerhard Mercator lived in an era of formidable intellectual and scientific advances. At the center of these developments were the cartographers who painstakingly pieced together the evidence to create ever more accurate pictures of the planet. Mercator was the greatest of all of them-a poor farm boy who attended one of Europe's top universities, was persecuted and imprisoned by the Inquisition, but survived to coin the term ''atlas'' and to produce the so-called projection for which he is known. Devoutly religious, yet gripped by Aristotelian science, Mercator struggled to reconcile the two, a conflict mirrored by the growing clash in Europe between humanism and the Church.nMercator solved the dimensional riddle that had vexed cosmographers for so long: How could the three-dimensional globe be converted into a two-dimensional map while retaining true compass bearings? The projection revolutionized navigation and has become the most common worldview. ISBN: 9780297646655. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780297646655
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Title: Mercator, the man who mapped the planet
Description: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 348. An enthralling biography of the man who created the first real map of the world and changed civilizationnBorn at the dawn of the age of discovery, Gerhard Mercator lived in an era of formidable intellectual and scientific advances. At the center of these developments were the cartographers who painstakingly pieced together the evidence to create ever more accurate pictures of the planet. Mercator was the greatest of all of them-a poor farm boy who attended one of Europe's top universities, was persecuted and imprisoned by the Inquisition, but survived to coin the term ''atlas'' and to produce the so-called projection for which he is known. Devoutly religious, yet gripped by Aristotelian science, Mercator struggled to reconcile the two, a conflict mirrored by the growing clash in Europe between humanism and the Church.nMercator solved the dimensional riddle that had vexed cosmographers for so long: How could the three-dimensional globe be converted into a two-dimensional map while retaining true compass bearings? The projection revolutionized navigation and has become the most common worldview. ISBN: 9780297646655. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780297646655
Price: EUR 15.00 = appr. US$ 16.30 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 1776324
- Book number: 1776324
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