Question 1
Where his predecessors had adopted a piecemeal approach to cartography, Mercator sought to wrap the world in systematic overlapping maps.
Cartographers before Mercator had tended to produce separate, individual map.
Question 2
No better example is required of genius arising from turmoil. He knew poverty, plague, war and persecution. He was imprisoned for his ideas yet patronized by an emperor. His life was one of brilliant breakthroughs and abrupt reversals.
During his life, Mercator experienced great changes of fortune.
Question 3
Some 40 or so of Mercator’s letters have survived, together with examples of virtually all of his printed maps and globes.
Most of Mercator’s published work remains intact today.
Question 4
Mercator’s most significant work was a project of cosmic proportions. Before he commenced the great work, Mercator produced in 1569 an enormous world map on a new projection.
Mercator started work on his projection shortly after embarking on his cosmography.
Question 5
Few of Mercator’s contemporaries understood what he was up to, despite the map’s title explaining that it was intended for use in navigation.
Mercator’s projection was immediately seen as a major breakthrough.
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