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The World Of Gerard Mercator: The Mapmaker Who Revolutionised Geography

Paperback • 2005 • English

The World Of Gerard Mercator: The Mapmaker Who Revolutionised Geography

By Andrew Taylor

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About the book

The true story of Gerard Mercator, the greatest map-maker of all time, who was condemned to death as a heretic. 'Geographie and Chronologie I may call the Sunne and the Moone, the right eye and the left, of all history.' In 'The World of Gerard Mercator', Andrew Taylor chronicles both the story of a great astronomer and mathematician, who was condemned to death as a heretic, and the history of that most fascinating conjunction of science and art: the drawing of maps. Gerard Mercator was born in ...Show more

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9780007100811

Publisher

HarperPerennial

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

The World Of Gerard Mercator: The Mapmaker Who Revolutionised Geography

Format

Paperback

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