Mercator: The Man who Mapped the Planet by Nicholas Crane

Mercator: The Man who Mapped the Planet

Nicholas Crane

397 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction reference sociology informative slow-paced
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Gerard Mercator (1512-1594) was born at the dawn of the Age of Discovery, when the world was beginning to be discovered and carved up by navigators, geographers and cartographers. Mercator was the greatest and most ingenious cartographer of them a...

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