Flattening the Earth: Mathematical and historical aspects of Mercator projection

DOI10.14708/AM.V13I1.6530zbMATH Open1515.01007MaRDI QIDQ6164803FDOQ6164803

Authors: Wlodek Proskurowski 

Publication date: 4 July 2023

Published in: Antiquitates Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

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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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