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Mercator map projection: see map projection.

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Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection.(Book review) (The Geographical Review)

The politics of cartography. (Mercator vs Peters projection) (U.S. News & World Report)

Truth In Mapping.(Gerard Mercator ) (U.S. News & World Report)

The Mercator Projection.(Poem) (TriQuarterly)

Gerardus Mercator (1512-94): known as the prince of modern geographers, Mercator was the first to use the term `atlas' and was the cream of the cartographic crop in an age of geographical discovery. (Late great geographers).(Brief Article) (Geographical)

Squaring the circle; The history of maps.("Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet") (The Economist (US))

Changing our world view: in 16th-century Europe, the rise of the renaissance saw science become the new religion. In this age of exploration and discovery--of both the physical and metaphysical--geographers had their work cut out for them. Nicholas crane describes how Gerard Mercator, a poor cobbler's son, became one of the world's greatest cartographers and literally changed the way we look at the world.(history)(Illustration) (Geographical)

Making earth flat: how to get a round object on paper.(Reading Map Projections) (Junior Scholastic)

Global projections: can you draw a flat map of the earth?(Geoskills) (Junior Scholastic)

Map projection. (Geoskills). (Junior Scholastic)

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