December 2

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Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher Gerardus Mercator (5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) created a world map (1569) based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing (rhumb lines) as straight lines, and that this principle is employed in nautical charts to this day?

Topic of the Day

Pirates