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Mercater's Early Life
Gerhard Mercater was born into a poor family in what's now Belgium. He studied at the university of louvain, where he got his masters and later became a cartographer. His maps include one that shows egypt, israel and palestine across six sheets.
The Mercator projection gets a lot of grief for distorting the relative sizes of different land masses, but Mercator’s map was actually pretty good at helping people navigate long distances at sea.
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