Mercator

[Ships_Cat]

For mappy/charty types who might find it interesting -

A book I found a very interesting read was Nicholas Crane's "Mercator, the Man Who Mapped the Planet". A biography of Gerard Mercator (who I assume forumites have at least heard of /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif).

I see that there is also another around by Andrew Taylor and with a similar but not the same title, which I could not comment on but may be just as good.

John

 

[misterg]

Try "The Great Arc" by John Keay - the story of surveying a 1600 mile meridian through India to the Himalaya, which allowed the radius of the Earth to be measured (amongst other things).

Fascinating.

Andy