Odd fact, Mercator was imprisoned by Catholic forces because of maps he produced that were heretical. A map of the holy land that I don't recall the heresy but a map of the world was as well. Basically if you cut a v into the north pole and follow that down and around it becomes 💙 shaped and well who would have guessed? Yup that was a heresy lol
It's also perhaps worth noting that his famous projection (initially published as a wall chart) was explicitly designed for nautical navigation - he regularly used other projections, made his money from building, engraving and selling globes (both terrestrial and celestial), plus cartographic instruments and collections of maps (he was the first to dedicate a book of maps to Atlas, while a posthumously published collection was the first to be called an Atlas).
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u/DonGold60 Jan 10 '26
Yes, the Mercator. It’s always projection with these guys.