Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the PlanetAn enthralling biography of the man who created the first real map of the world and changed civilization |
Contents
To the Water Margin | |
The Castle | |
Triangulation | |
The Mathematical Jewel and Other Suitable Tools | |
Neither Known Nor Explored | |
Spies and Cardinals | |
Renés Domain | |
Hunters in the Snow | |
A Study of the Whole Universe 23 Time | |
and Place | |
liketh loveth getteth and useth | |
Ptolemy Corrected | |
Adorn your Britannia | |
Celestial Maidens | |
Terrae Sanctae | |
Naming America | |
The Fall of Ghent | |
Latin Letters | |
A More Complete Globe | |
Enemy at the Ramparts | |
The Most Unjust Persecution 16 The Slight Youth from the North | |
Somewhere Worthy of the Muses | |
Frankfurt Fair | |
The New Geography | |
Apocalypse | |
Atlas | |
Creation | |
Epilogue | |
Notes | |
Chronology of Mercators Principal Works | |
Select Bibliography | |