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The spread of the Mercator projection in Western European and United States cartography / Michele Abee in Cartographica, vol 56 n° 2 (Summer 2021)  

Public [article]  inCartographica > vol 56 n° 2 (Summer 2021) . - pp 151 - 165 Titre : The spread of the Mercator projection in Western European and United States cartography Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Michele Abee, Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : pp 151 - 165 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Projections [Termes IGN] cartographie thématique [Termes IGN] Etats-Unis [Termes IGN] Europe occidentale [Termes IGN] histoire de la cartographie [Termes IGN] projection Universal Transverse Mercator Résumé : (auteur) In 1569, the Dutch cartographer Gerard Mercator published a projection that revolutionized maritime navigation. While the current literature notes the significance of the Mercator projection, it does not cover how it became a dominant projection for world maps in thematic and reference cartography. The institutionalization of the Mercator projection in western European and U.S. cartography was the result of the roles played by navigators, scientific societies and agencies, and the producers of popular reference and thematic maps and atlases. The data are pulled from the publication record of world maps and world maps in atlases for content analysis and are compared and contrasted with complementary historical sources. The results reveal that the misuse of the Mercator projection began after 1700, when it was connected to scientists working with navigators and the creation of thematic cartography. During the eighteenth century, the Mercator projection was published in journals and reports for geographic societies that detailed state-sponsored explorations. In the nineteenth century, the influence of well-known scientists using the Mercator projection filtered into publications for the general public. The use of the Mercator projection for world maps in reference and thematic cartography was a choice that was the result of the projection being indirectly validated by the scientific and academic communities from the eighteenth century into the nineteenth century. Numéro de notice : A2021-704 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : GEOMATIQUE/POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.3138/cart-2019-0024 Date de publication en ligne : 01/06/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.3138/cart-2019-0024 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=98593 [article]

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