Rhumb Lines and Map Wars

Autorentext
Mark Monmonier is Distinguished Professor of Geography at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and author of "How to Lie with Maps, Cartographies of Danger, Air Apparent," and "Spying with Maps," the winner of the 2002 Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

Klappentext
Celebrated geographer Mark Monmonier offers a complete history of the Mercator projection--the first flat-surface map to take into account the roundness of the earth--and examines the uses and limitations of one of cartography's most significant innovations.


Zusammenfassung
An account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator's legacy examines the limitations and uses of Mercator's clever method of portraying the earth on a flat surface while taking into account the earth's actual roundness.

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