Nicholas Crane. MERCATOR: The Man Who Mapped The Planet.
New York: 2003. Cloth.
A fascinating biography of the man who solved the riddle of how to convert the three-dimensional globe into a two-dimensional map. Mercator's projection remains the most common world view to this day.
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