Mercator-The Map Maker

Maps codify the miracle of existence. And the man who wrote the codes for the maps we use today was Gerard Mercator, a cobbler's son born 500 years ago on a muddy floodplain in northern Europe. A Mercator was a humble man with a universal vision. In his own time he was 'the prince of modern geographers'; his depictions of the planet and its regions unsurpassed in accuracy, clarity and consistency. More recently, he was crowned by the American scholar Robert W Karrow as 'the first moder...