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Q: You are Gerardus Mercator and live in Duisburg?
Mercator: My name was Gheert Cremer and I was from the
Q: You were charged with heresy?
Mercator: I was distrusted because I traveled so much.
Q: You came to Duisburg for religious reasons?
Mercator: I may also have come to open a cartography business and teach mathematics.
Q: You have always been a mapmaker?
Mercator: No, I was originally an engraver of brass plates.
Q: Is your method of projecting the sphere onto a two dimensional map useful?
Mercator: It is easier to roll up a map than a sphere. But it is a distortion. Africa looks the same size as Greenland but Africa is actually fourteen times the size of
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Voiceover
Mercator’s life was was not quite as it seemed. His maps were not quite as the world is. Maps are…. picturesque deceptions. Yes.
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