World of Innovation
Cartography in the Time of Gerhard Mercator
1st Edition
Published on 27. February 2015
280 pages
978-1-4438-7570-7 (ISBN)
Description
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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Gerhard Holzer | Valerie Newby | Petra Svatek
A World of Innovation
Cartography in the Time of Gerhard Mercator
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02/2015
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Content
- 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
