Mercator: The Man Who Mapped The Planet
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Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket visible — cloth/board appears in good condition. Page Condition: good. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Firm, pages intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A masterwork of biographical narrative, Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet chronicles the extraordinary life of Gerardus Mercator, the sixteenth-century Flemish cartographer whose revolutionary projection transformed the way humanity understood and navigated the world. Nicholas Crane presents a vivid portrait of a Renaissance genius who, against the backdrop of religious persecution, war, and relentless intellectual curiosity, reshaped geography from a speculative art into a precise science. With the authority of a seasoned travel writer, Crane details the turbulent world of Reformation Europe, placing Mercator's monumental achievements in their full political and cultural context. The result is a richly researched and compulsively readable account of one man's obsession with defining the shape of the Earth — and how that obsession gave sailors, explorers, and empires a map of the modern world.
Author: Nicholas Crane
Format: Paperback
Published: 2002, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket visible — cloth/board appears in good condition. Page Condition: good. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Firm, pages intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A masterwork of biographical narrative, Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet chronicles the extraordinary life of Gerardus Mercator, the sixteenth-century Flemish cartographer whose revolutionary projection transformed the way humanity understood and navigated the world. Nicholas Crane presents a vivid portrait of a Renaissance genius who, against the backdrop of religious persecution, war, and relentless intellectual curiosity, reshaped geography from a speculative art into a precise science. With the authority of a seasoned travel writer, Crane details the turbulent world of Reformation Europe, placing Mercator's monumental achievements in their full political and cultural context. The result is a richly researched and compulsively readable account of one man's obsession with defining the shape of the Earth — and how that obsession gave sailors, explorers, and empires a map of the modern world.