Gerardus Mercator

Gerardus Mercator
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Publisher : Capstone
Total Pages : 120
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ISBN-10 : 0756533120
ISBN-13 : 9780756533120
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Book Synopsis Gerardus Mercator by : Ann Heinrichs

Download or read book Gerardus Mercator written by Ann Heinrichs and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the sixteenth-century cartographer Gerardus Mercator, who invented a method of projecting the curvature of the Earth's surface on to a flat sheet of paper.


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