Gerardus Mercator’s Groundbreaking Projection

Gerardus Mercator’s Groundbreaking Projection

The Mercator projection gets a lot of grief for distorting the relative sizes of different land masses, but Mercator’s map was actually pretty good at helping people navigate long distances at sea.

Research:

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