The true story of Gerard Mercator, the greatest map-maker of all time, who was condemned to death as a heretic.
Gerard Mer. \'Geographie and Chronologie I may call the Sunne and the Moone, the right eye and the left, of all history.\' In \'The World of Gerard Mercator\', Andrew Taylor chronicles both the story of a great astronomer and mathematician, who was condemned to death as a heretic, and the history of that most fascinating conjunction of science and art: the drawing of maps.
The true story of Gerard Mercator, the greatest map-maker of all time, who was condemned to death as a heretic