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Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet
by Crane, Nicholas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Like New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0805066241
- ISBN 13
- 9780805066241
- Seller
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Henry Holt & Company, 2003. Hardcover. Like New/Fine. 6x1x9. An enthralling biography of the man who created the first real map of the world and changed civilizationBorn at the dawn of the age of discovery, Gerhard Mercator lived in an era of formidable intellectual and scientific advances. At the center of these developments were the cartographers who painstakingly pieced together the evidence to create ever more accurate pictures of the planet. Mercator was the greatest of all of them-a poor farm boy who attended one of Europe's top universities, was persecuted and imprisoned by the Inquisition, but survived to coin the term "atlas" and to produce the so-called projection for which he is known. Devoutly religious, yet gripped by Aristotelian science, Mercator struggled to reconcile the two, a conflict mirrored by the growing clash in Europe between humanism and the Church.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010027731
- Title
- Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet
- Author
- Crane, Nicholas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0805066241
- ISBN 13
- 9780805066241
- Publisher
- Henry Holt & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- 6x1x9
- LCCN
- 2002027647
- Keywords
- Maps, mapping, cartography, geography
- X weight
- 26 oz
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