Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet by Nicholas Crane

Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet

Nicholas Crane

432 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science adventurous informative inspiring slow-paced
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“Crane’s book is quite probably destined to become the standard text.”—Simon Winchester, The New York TimesGerhard Mercator lived in an era of formidable intellectual and scientific advances. At the center of the exploratory vortex were the cartog...

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