Quotes About Mercator

MERCATOR MAP PROJECTION (1569)

The earth's round, like an orange, but this map is like its skin, cut off in ovals, north to south, laid flat and stretched a bit at the top and bottom. A Dutchman called Mercator invented the way to do this accurately twenty years ago. It's the first accurate world map.

The most important evidence for the age of the maps [...] is to be found in those showing the Antarctic, especially in the maps of Mercator, Piri Re'is, and Oronteus Finaeus. All of these maps appear to show the continent at a time when there was a temperate climate there. Some geological evidence, in the form of three sedimentary cores from the bottom of the Ross Sea, has been presented to suggest that such a warm period may indeed have existed there down to about 6,000 years ago.

He was doing chinning exercies in the closet, using a bar clamped to the doorway. 'Where did you get that?' 'It's Mercator's.' 'Who's that?' 'He's this senior I hang around with now. He's almost nineteen and he's still in high school. To give you some idea.' 'Some idea of what?' 'How big he is. He bench-presses these awesome amounts.