"Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet"

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In this paper, the writer examines how Crane's "Mercator" details how Mercator as an individual was inspired to take on the prodigious task of the formation of the cosmography that yielded the birth of the Atlas as well as the birth of the globe. The writer discusses Crane's treatment of the environment in which Mercator grew up, and how he was inspired to take on such a prodigious task. The writer also touches upon Mercator's 36,000 word treatise called "On The Creation and Fabric of the World' and asserts that it is perhaps the farthest reaching global vision that mankind has ever seen. The writer concludes that Mercator was a global thinker who personified the means by which the human rational mind was capable of seeing the globe.

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"In a time of exploration and new scientific frontiers that were to shape the modern world, Mercator (1512-94) had the ultimate global vision. He thought of all things at a global level, and his global vision was to spur the massive project that we has to undertake, the cosmography, that yielded the birth of the Atlas, as well as the birth of the globe. His intrinsic ability to see things at a global, collective level, viewing and organizing the aspects of existence as interrelated and conforming to an order, was the earliest manifestation of perhaps the most fundamental aspect of the global mentality which has become increasingly relevant to society."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Crane, Nicholas. Mercator: The Man who Mapped the Planet. 2003: Weidenfeld & Nicholson New York, NY.

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