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 | #1642558 in Books |  2004-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.90 x5.25l,1.01 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A Basic Discussion of the Difficulty of Turning a Three-Dimensional Object (Earth) into a Two-Dimensional Presentation|By Roger D. Launius|Mark Monmonier has nearly cornered the market for popular discussion of cartographical issues. A distinguished professor at Syracuse University, Monmonier takes on here the fascinating history of the Mercator projection of the globe. This is|From Scientific American|"Any attempt to show how map projections work must include their rhetorical role, which involves goals markedly different from traditional cartographic tasks like describing boundaries, exploring patterns, and getting around. This rhetor

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 o...

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