{"id":25815,"date":"2015-03-16T06:49:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T06:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=25815"},"modified":"2026-05-09T10:07:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:07:51","slug":"mercator-gerardus-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mercator-gerardus-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercator, Gerardus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Mercator.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-25817\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Mercator-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mercator\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Mercator-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Mercator.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a>Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) <\/strong>was a renowned cartographer, mathematician and philosopher. He is credited with coining the word &#8216;atlas&#8217; to describe a collection of maps. He developed a map projection still in use today, although it highlights the near impossibility of satisfactorily transferring spherical details on to a flat surface<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He is among many of his day who believed that America was Atlantis.<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&gt;&gt;<\/span><\/strong>His views were expressed in his <em>Chronologia, <\/em>the 1569 text of which is available online<sup>(b)<\/sup>.<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&lt;&lt;<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2596783\/Why-world-map-youre-looking-WRONG-Africa-China-Mexico-distorted-despite-access-accurate-satellite-data.html\">https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2596783\/Why-world-map-youre-looking-WRONG-Africa-China-Mexico-distorted-despite-access-accurate-satellite-data.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/bub_gb_N7h-EJIxzokC\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/bub_gb_N7h-EJIxzokC<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) was a renowned cartographer, mathematician and philosopher. He is credited with coining the word &#8216;atlas&#8217; to describe a collection of maps. He developed a map projection still in use today, although it highlights the near impossibility of satisfactorily transferring spherical details on to a flat surface(a). &nbsp; He is among many of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,1061,3704],"class_list":["post-25815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-america","tag-atlas","tag-gerardus-mercator"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25815"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67477,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25815\/revisions\/67477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}