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"To formulate his map Mercator used projections that retained key relationships for navigators while minimizing the distortions of flattening a curved object. Still used today, his maps played an important role in the subsequent navigations of the world's oceans and marked the passage of the center of mapmaking from Italy to the Netherlands. Mercator dropped Ptolomaic maps as a cartographic foundation, liberating mapmakers to build on information from contemporary explorations."
--Joyce Appleby, Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2013), p. 67
December 28, 2016