Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897 · Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin & Co. · leaf 421
out thefornuila for parallelizing the meridians and for spreading the parallels of latitude. Mead, on The Construction0/Maps (1717), charged Mercator with having stolen the idea from Edward Wright, who was the first to pub-lish an engraved map on this system in his Ccrtainc Errors of .Vatigation.… … ATLASES OF THE iOth ANU i/th CENTURIES. after giving his attention to a closer study ofPtolemv and to the publication of an edition ofthe great Alexandrian geography, with a revisionof Ag.nthoda;mons charts, but without any at-tempt to make them conform to the newer knowl-edge, he set about the…
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