How Mercator did it in 1569: from tables of rhumbs to a cartographic projection
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Joaquim Alves Gaspar, Henrique Leitão
Publication date: 9 August 2016
Published in: European Mathematical Society Newsletter (Search for Journal in Brave)
History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40) Geodesy, mapping problems (86A30) History of geophysics (86-03) Recreational mathematics (00A08)
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