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Mercator's projection

noun

A map projection of the earth onto a cylinder; areas appear greater the farther they are from the equator. Synonym: Mercator projection.

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... to none both then and now, as well as Trinity House, which presently began to undertake the duties it still discharges by supervising all aids to navigation round the British Isles. The use of quadrants, telescopes, and maps on Mercator's projection all began in the reign of Elizabeth, as did many other inventions, adaptations, handy wrinkles, and vital changes in strategy and tactics. Taken together, these improvements may well make us of the twentieth century wonder whether we are so very ...

— Elizabethan Sea Dogs • William Wood

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Words linked to "Mercator's projection" : Mercator projection, map projection