How Mercator did it in 1569: from tables of rhumbs to a cartographic projection

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Authors Joaquim Alves Gaspar, Henrique Leitão

Publication date 9 August 2016

Published in European Mathematical Society Newsletter (Search for Journal in Brave)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Recreational mathematics (00A08) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40) History of geophysics (86-03) Geodesy, mapping problems (86A30)

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• Portuguese mathematical typography: a brief overview from 1496 until 1987

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