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30 Interesting Maps To Broaden Your Understanding Of The World (New Pics)This comes from the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator, who created a “cylindrical” map to represent the ...
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know AboutHe became a trader of books and maps. His travels led him to meet another influential Flemish cartographer, Gerardus Mercator. By 1570, Ortelius had already become a published cartographer.
On the Mercator map, shown below, Greenland appears almost the same size as Africa. In reality, Greenland only covers about 1/14 of Africa. Created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in ...
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