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Nicholas Crane and Jerry Brotton
The Man who Mapped the Planet
Hay Festival 2012,
We salute the 500th anniversary of the birth of Gerardus Mercator, the greatest cartographer of all time; the man who coined the word ‘atlas’ and solved the riddle of converting the three-dimensional globe into a two-dimensional map while retaining true compass bearings.