TY  - BOOK
AU  - Monmonier,Mark S.
TI  - Rhumb lines and map wars: a social history of the Mercator projection 
SN  - 9780226534329 (electronic bk.)
AV  - GA115 .M66 2004eb
U1  - 526/.82 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Mercator projection (Cartography)
KW  - Cartography
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Loxodrome
KW  - Peters projection (Cartography)
KW  - Navigation
KW  - Astronomy
KW  - Science
KW  - Geography
KW  - Mercator, Projection de
KW  - Cartographie
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Loxodromies
KW  - Peters, Projection de
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Earth Sciences
KW  - Cartografie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Mercatorprojectie
KW  - Sociale aspecten
KW  - Culturele aspecten
KW  - rasuqam
KW  - Projection de Peters
KW  - Loxodromie
KW  - Projection de Mercator
KW  - Mercator-Projektion
KW  - swd
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-229) and index; Bearings straight? an introduction -- Early sailing charts -- Mercator's résumé -- Revealing replicas -- The Wright approach -- Travelers' aide -- Soldiering on -- On track -- Wall maps and worldviews -- Size matters -- Points of view
N2  - "In Rhumb Lines and Map Wars, Mark Monmonier offers an illustrated account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator's legacy. He takes us back to 1569, when Mercator announced a clever method of portraying the earth on a flat surface, creating the first projection to take into account the earth's roundness. As Monmonier shows, mariners benefited most from Mercator's projection, which allowed for easy navigation of the high seas with rhumb lines - clear-cut routes with a constant compass bearing - for true direction. But the projection's popularity among nineteenth-century sailors led to its overuse - often in inappropriate, non-navigational ways - for wall maps, world atlases, and geopolitical propaganda."--Jacket
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