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The sexing up of the map-makers Noel Malcolm considers the most successful of all early atlases and the man who produced it
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Imagined Corners: Exploring the World's First Atlas
by Paul Binding
Review, pounds 25, 314 pp
pounds 23 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222
HAVING long been the preserve of antiquarians and collectors, old
maps have suddenly become sexy. The history of cartography is now a
boom industry; historians have finally woken up to the fact that maps
can be just as interesting as pictures, and almost as informative as
written texts. For maps have much to tell us about how people thought
of the world, and what they intended to do with it - whether they
were kings, generals, colonialists, merchants, or ...
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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)
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Squaring the circle; The history of maps.("Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet")
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Gerardus Mercator (1512-94): known as the prince of modern geographers, Mercator was the first to use the term `atlas' and was the cream of the cartographic crop in an age of geographical discovery. (Late great geographers).(Brief Article)
; For what is Mercator famous? A humble man with a universal vision, Mercator coined the term `atlas', which he gave to his work...while retaining true compass bearings. Known as the Mercator Projection, it revolutionised navigation. What was...
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MERCATOR GOLD (MCR).
; ...Aloysius Harford, chief executive of Mercator Gold, isn't taking any chances on the...But he can afford to be, because as Mercator's Australian projects move towards production...could even fall lower than that, but when Mercator listed back in October 2004, gold traded...
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Imagined Corners
; ...to represent space and distance. Brueghel, who was Ortelius's contemporary, produced devastatingly brilliant scenes rooted in real Dutch landscapes. Like all good ideas, Ortelius's brainwave was very simple. He collected maps drawn...the intelligentsia of the northern Renaissance gave Ortelius the ...
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Mercator's solution checks airline telecom bills, THE INDEPENDENT
; 00-00-0000 Mercator, the Dubai-based IT division of the...press release. As the latest addition to Mercator's portfolio of airline financial products...manually. Hugh Pride, Director of IT at Mercator said: ComStar offers a powerful tool...
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Massachusetts company acquires Mercator: at least 70 local jobs will disappear.(Ascential Software Corp. has acquired Mercator Software Inc.)
; More than 70 local jobs will be lost as Mercator Software Inc. shuts down its Wilton headquarters...Mass.-based Ascential Software Corp. Mercator, which assists businesses in connecting...roughly 35 million outstanding shares of Mercator--$106 million in cash. Mercator, which...
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Mercator wins breakthrough deal with swiss worldcargo for its skychain cargo it solution
; ...business management solution offered by Mercator, the airline IT solutions provider of...standards. The solution, wholly developed by Mercator in Dubai, has been designed to manage...users and customers. Expert teams from Mercator and Swiss WorldCargo will work together...
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VIRGIN NIGERIA CHOOSES MERCATOR'S AIRLINE FINANCIAL SERVICES
; ...financial systems and services on offer from Mercator, the Dubai-based IT division of the Emirates...passenger revenue accounting operation to Mercator. This critical process, which converts...effectively, will now be completely managed by Mercator's professionals. Virgin Nigeria will...
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Rubin and Mercator: grotesque comedy in the German Easter Play.(Critical Essay)
; ...aromatic oils)--a character known as Mercator or Institor entered the Latin liturgical...as if they were potential customers, Mercator claimed to possess an ointment that would...wounded body. For some curious reason, Mercator became firmly lodged between the fact...
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