Mercator
DOWNLOAD
Download Mercator PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Mercator book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Rhumb Lines And Map Wars
DOWNLOAD
Author : Mark Monmonier
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-11-15
Rhumb Lines And Map Wars written by Mark Monmonier and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-15 with Science categories.
In Rhumb Lines and Map Wars, Mark Monmonier offers an insightful, richly illustrated account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator's legacy. He takes us back to 1569, when Mercator announced a clever method of portraying the earth on a flat surface, creating the first projection to take into account the earth's roundness. As Monmonier shows, mariners benefited most from Mercator's projection, which allowed for easy navigation of the high seas with rhumb lines—clear-cut routes with a constant compass bearing—for true direction. But the projection's popularity among nineteenth-century sailors led to its overuse—often in inappropriate, non-navigational ways—for wall maps, world atlases, and geopolitical propaganda. Because it distorts the proportionate size of countries, the Mercator map was criticized for inflating Europe and North America in a promotion of colonialism. In 1974, German historian Arno Peters proffered his own map, on which countries were ostensibly drawn in true proportion to one another. In the ensuing "map wars" of the 1970s and 1980s, these dueling projections vied for public support—with varying degrees of success. Widely acclaimed for his accessible, intelligent books on maps and mapping, Monmonier here examines the uses and limitations of one of cartography's most significant innovations. With informed skepticism, he offers insightful interpretations of why well-intentioned clerics and development advocates rallied around the Peters projection, which flagrantly distorted the shape of Third World nations; why journalists covering the controversy ignored alternative world maps and other key issues; and how a few postmodern writers defended the Peters worldview with a self-serving overstatement of the power of maps. Rhumb Lines and Map Wars is vintage Monmonier: historically rich, beautifully written, and fully engaged with the issues of our time.
A World Of Innovation
DOWNLOAD
Author : Gerhard Holzer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2015-02-27
A World Of Innovation written by Gerhard Holzer and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-27 with Technology & Engineering categories.
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.
The Mercator Projection And Its Variations
DOWNLOAD
Author : Michael G. Paradis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
The Mercator Projection And Its Variations written by Michael G. Paradis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Cartography categories.
This report presents basic information on the Mercator projection, including its variations, and a selected glossary. The report is aimed at the apprentice cartographer as well as non-professional personnel whose duties require a familiarity with projections in general. The method of presentation, supported with illustrations, is intended to comprehensively depict the intrinsic properties of each projection covered. (Author).
Gerardus Mercator
DOWNLOAD
Author : Ann Heinrichs
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2007-07
Gerardus Mercator written by Ann Heinrichs and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
A biography of the sixteenth-century cartographer Gerardus Mercator, who invented a method of projecting the curvature of the Earth's surface on to a flat sheet of paper.
The World Of Gerard Mercator
DOWNLOAD
Author : Andrew Taylor
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 2004
The World Of Gerard Mercator written by Andrew Taylor and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Gerard Mercator created the most-used map of all time. Mercator's Projection is still the standard view of the world. This text examines the evolution of mapmaking from art to science that forms the backdrop to the story of Mercator.
A New And Accurate Method Of Finding A Ship S Position At Sea By Projection On Mercator S Chart
DOWNLOAD
Author : Thomas H. Sumner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1851
A New And Accurate Method Of Finding A Ship S Position At Sea By Projection On Mercator S Chart written by Thomas H. Sumner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1851 with Mercator projection (Cartography) categories.
Mercator
DOWNLOAD
Author : Nicholas Crane
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-12-16
Mercator written by Nicholas Crane and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A biography of the genius who mapped the world and for ever changed the face of the planet - by a bestselling author. 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 all: it was he who coined the word 'atlas' and solved the riddle of converting the three-dimensional globe into a two-dimensional map while retaining true compass bearings. It is Mercator's Projection that NASA are using today to map Mars. How did Mercator reconcile his religious beliefs with a science that would make Christian maps obsolete? How did a man whose imagination roamed continents endure imprisonment by the Inquisition? Crane brings this great man vividly to life, underlying it with colour illustrations of the maps themselves: maps that brought to a rapt public wonders as remarkable as today's cyber-world.
Mercator
DOWNLOAD
Author : Arthur Sidney Osley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Mercator written by Arthur Sidney Osley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with categories.
Mercator
DOWNLOAD
Author : Dirk Imhof
language : en
Publisher: Exhibitions International
Release Date : 2012
Mercator written by Dirk Imhof and has been published by Exhibitions International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Discoveries in geography categories.
The European perspective opened up markedly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a whole new world unfolded. Explorers, traders and diplomats committed their travelling experiences to paper in journals and reports. They sketched out their impressions of recently discovered territories, making it possible for us today to see how they viewed other cultures at that time. These travel narratives may have been embroidered with a certain degree of fantasy at times, nevertheless, they also frequently provided precise descriptions of exotic regions.\nThey were important sources of information for cartography, which underwent an explosive evolution as a result. Navigational knowledge also grew considerably as a consequence of the traveller's urge to explore. After all, maritime expansion on a vast scale led to a need for new techniques and instruments in order to reach destinations quickly and safely. The development of cartography, in which Gerard Mercator played a pivotal role, was in turn responsible for expanding the mobility of Europeans as a whole. It was not uncommon for adventurous sixteenth-century travellers to embark on lengthy journeys as part of a trade mission or in connection with their education. One such young adventurer was Balthasar III Moretus. He made several journeys throughout Europe, including one to Italy, and kept journals of his observations on the way. Mercator: Exploring New Horizons maps out literally and figuratively this fascinating period of interplay between European travelling behaviour and the development of cartography.
Universal Transverse Mercator Grid
DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Universal Transverse Mercator Grid written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Grids (Cartography) categories.