Changing our world view: in 16th-century Europe, the rise of the renaissance saw science become the new religion. In this age of exploration and discovery--of both the physical and metaphysical--geographers had their work cut out for them. Nicholas crane describes how Gerard Mercator, a poor cobbler's son, became one of the world's greatest cartographers and literally changed the way we look at the world.(history)(Illustration) From: Geographical | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: Crane, Nicholas | COPYRIGHT 2003 Campion Interactive Publishing Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

TAKE AWAY A MARINER'S MAPS AND HE WON'T know where he is. But take away a geographer's maps and he won't know who he is. Maps are the principal means of geographical discourse, with their own vocabulary and cosmic scope. "[They] belong to the loftiest and loveliest of intellectual pursuits," wrote the Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer Ptolemy, who believed maps were the means by which man could "exhibit to human understanding ... the Earth through a portrait".

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