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- Gerardus Mercator - geografía.
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Gerardus Mercator
A droite: La première page de /'Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura de Mercator pu- blié par ses héritiers en 1595, un an après sa mort. Pour la premiè- re fois, le nom d'Atlas, personna- ge de la mythologie grecque qui soutient le monde sur ses épaules, fut utilisé à cette occasion pour une collection de cartes. A T li LA S — C 0 SM OG RAF HICN. IvIEDITAT I ONES D L FABRICA MVND1 ET FA BRICATI FIGVILA /617_ grrorde >14-rnecc...
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Map - Geography.
Often only southeast slopes are hachured or shaded, giving somewhat the effect of a bird's-eye view of the area illuminated by light from the northwest. Shadings orcarefully drawn hachures, neither of which give elevations, are more easily interpreted than contour lines and are sometimes used in conjunction with them for greaterclarity. IV MAP PROJECTIONS For the representation of the entire surface of the earth without any kind of distortion, a map must have a spherical surface; a map of this...