{"product_id":"mercator-the-man-who-mapped-the-planet","title":"Mercator The Man Who Mapped the Planet","description":"\u003cp\u003eMercator\u003cbr\u003eThe Man Who Mapped the Planet\u003cbr\u003eBy Nicholas Crane.\u003cbr\u003e(SCARCE, OUT OF PRINT).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher:\u003cbr\u003eWeidenfeld \u0026amp; Nicolson, 2002, first edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNear new hardback and jacket, minor compression to spine ends, no inscriptions.\u003cbr\u003eJacket has slight fading to spine.\u003cbr\u003e348 Pages, illustrated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGerhard Mercator (1512-1594) was born at the dawn of the Age of Discovery, when the world was beginning to be discovered and carved up by navigators, geographers and cartographers. Mercator was the greatest and most ingenious cartographer of them all: it was he who coined the word 'atlas' and solved the riddle of converting the three-dimensional globe into a two-dimensional map while retaining true compass bearings. It is Mercator's Projection that NASA are using today to map Mars. How did Mercator reconcile his religious beliefs with a science that would make Christian maps obsolete? How did a man whose imagination roamed continents endure imprisonment by the Inquisition? Crane brings this great man vividly to life, underlying it with the maps themselves: maps that brought to a rapt public wonders as remarkable as today's cyber-world. Nick Crane's new book is a scintillating account of the climax of the map-makers' century (and of Mercator's life) - the miraculous compression of the planet which revolutionised navigation and has become the most common worldview we have.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll books are sent with free courier postage within New Zealand.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Books NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51260171550967,"sku":null,"price":25.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/7687\/5255\/files\/IMG_4453_fe1fa592-b72a-4cbf-917f-d4f4f265491d.jpg?v=1791145360","url":"https:\/\/phoenixbooksnz.com\/en-fr\/products\/mercator-the-man-who-mapped-the-planet","provider":"Phoenix Books NZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}