![]() ![]() ![]() The Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator first designed the map style in 1569 as a way of displaying the spherical Earth on a flat, rectangular surface. Once a staple of school classrooms the world over, the famed Mercator projection has also been the subject of considerable debate and controversy. Mercator’s 1569 map-the first to employ his projection style. ![]()
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