DIGIRENT - The World of Gerard Mercator: The Mapmaker Who Revolutionized Geography
Andrew Taylor
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The World of Gerard Andrew Taylor epub The World of Gerard Andrew Taylor pdf download The World of Gerard Andrew Taylor pdf file The World of Gerard Andrew Taylor audiobook The World of Gerard Andrew Taylor book review The World of Gerard Andrew Taylor summary | #1701646 in Books | Walker n Company | 2004-11-01 | 2004-11-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.26 x29.21 x5.72l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 272 pages | Brown hardcopy with gold lettering, jacket with picture of Mercator. | 291||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Nancy H. Stock|Good book|3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Mercator - An interesting life.|By Customer|I had reservations about how exciting the life of a mapmaker who never left Europe could be, but I was pleasantly surprised with how readable and interesting Taylor makes Mercator's life. As a s|From Publishers Weekly|Maps today strike us as fairly innocuous charts of the world. But 500 years ago, an era when political power and religious authority were in flux, maps were fraught with implications that made owning the "wrong" map a cause for execution.
A biography of the mapmaker who revolutionized geography
The story of discovery and mapmaking is one of pushing back shadows," writes Andrew Taylor, and "none in the last two thousand years achieved as much as Gerard Mercator in extending the boundaries of what could be comprehended." His life encompassed most of the turbulent, extraordinary sixteenth century, a time when revolutions would engulf religion, science, and civilization. Almost extinguished by the In...
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