Основной контент книги The World of Gerard Mercator: The Mapmaker Who Revolutionised Geography
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The World of Gerard Mercator: The Mapmaker Who Revolutionised Geography
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Andrew Taylor
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The true story of Gerard Mercator, the greatest map-maker of all time, who was condemned to death as a heretic.‘Geographie and Chronologie I may call the Sunne and the Moone, the right eye and the left, of all history.’In ‘The World of Gerard Mercator’, Andrew Taylor chronicles both the story of a great astronomer and mathematician, who was condemned to death as a heretic, and the history of that most fascinating conjunction of science and art: the drawing of maps. Gerard Mercator was born in Flanders in 1512. In addition to creating accurate globes of the earth and the stars, he was the first... Weiter
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29 Dezember 2018Umfang:
392 S. 38 IllustrationenISBN:
9780007401406Rechteinhaber:
HarperCollins