Gerardus Mercator’s Groundbreaking Projection

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Society & Culture, History

4.2 • 24.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

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.

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