The New York Times has created a Google Map of some of the
locations where protesters rioted and clashed with the police in
Egypt on Friday. The map includes brief summaries of the events
and a number of photographs of the unfolding events. Atlas sive
Cosmographicae by Gerardus Mercator (1595) The Fleming Gerard
Mercator (1512-1594) is rightfully regarded as the most
important scientific cartographer of the Renaissance. With two
contemporaries, the geographer Abraham Ortelius and the printer
and publisher Christoffel Plantijn,he is considered the father
of commercial cartography in the Netherlands.Even during his
lifetime his maps, globes and atlases found their way all over
the world.Mercator established his reputation mainly through his
new projection method. The meridians and parallels are
positioned at right angles to each other.If the distances
between the meridians are equal, they progressively become
larger between the parallels from the equator to the poles.This
is why the latitude becomes wider the c