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begins her account by giving the longitude of Bethlehemat the Time our Lord Jesus Christ vouchsafed there to be born for us.
Squire, Jane. A Proposal for Discovering Our Longitude. Printed for the author, and sold by P. Vaillant and F. Needham.
prelims
Gerhard Mercator
, the famous sixteenth-century cartographer, had also chosen...
Timeline
1560: Gerhard Mercator published his famous map...
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1560
Gerhard Mercator
published his famous map of the world (the Mercator Projection, which at the price of some inaccuracy of scale, depicts the spherical globe as a flat surface).
1570: The engraver Abraham Ortelius published the...
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1570
The engraver Abraham Ortelius
published the first world atlas based on scientific measurements, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; Gerhard Mercator
followed with his Atlas, 1585-1595, which gave the genre its current name.
