Flattening the Earth: Mathematical and historical aspects of Mercator projection

DOI10.14708/AM.V13I1.6530MaRDI QIDQ6164803zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Wlodek Proskurowski

Publication date 4 July 2023

Published in Antiquitates Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

plane surfaceequidistanceconformity of anglesangle preserving Mercator projectionequivalence of areasnumerical integration in the XVI centuryunit dependent table of results

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesy, mapping problems (86A30) Numerical integration (65D30) History of geometry (51-03) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40)

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