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Gerardus Mercator’s Groundbreaking Projection
8 de jun. de 2022 ·
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Gerardus Mercator’s Groundbreaking Projection
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The Mercator projection gets a lot of grief for distorting the relative sizes of different land masses, but Mercator’s map was actually pretty good at helping people navigate long distances...
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The Mercator projection gets a lot of grief for distorting the relative sizes of different land masses, but Mercator’s map was actually pretty good at helping people navigate long distances at sea. Research:
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