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Gerardus Mercator’s Groundbreaking Projection
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The Mercater's Atlas
mercater's sons sold the plates that were used to print the atlas to engraver and publisher, odocus hondius. Hondius added more maps and published another version in 16 o six that became known as the mercator hondius atlas. People were also making improvements and adjustments to mercater's 15 69 world map. Thomas harriet created tables of meridianal parts along with edward wright. These allowed other map makers to lay out the longitude and latitude grid that mercater had used. In 17 69, benjamin franklin and whaling captain timothy folger made a chart of the gulf stream based on a mercator projection.
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