Mercator’s fame rests with his world map of 1569. It did what no other map before it had done: It made it possible for sailors to draw a straight line on a map that would correspond to a ...

Have you ever looked at a world map and wondered why some countries seem much larger than others, even though that doesn't ...

The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

He bounced back, of course, and his 1569 world map was important enough that it was still deemed worthy of reply in the second half of the 20th century. And what of the man who went to war with ...

In the bottom left corner of Mercator’s famous 1569 world map, he included the first known map of the North Pole (which was later published separately under the title Septentrionalium Terrarum).

When this world map was charted in the 1600s ... The flat map, created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569, is still commonly used todayCredit: Getty Images The flat map, created ...

AuthaGraph The current standard for world maps, the Mercator projection, was developed by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. The map became the official standard because it is great ...

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By Joshua Sokol Most of the world maps you’ve seen in your life are past their prime. The Mercator was devised by a Flemish cartographer in 1569. The Winkel Tripel, the map style favored by ...