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belbbmfan:
Welcome home Leslie!
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: belbbmfan on November 12, 2007, 02:11:42 pm ---Welcome home Leslie!
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Thanks, Fabienne! It is good to be home.
While in Chicago, we went to a Map Exhibition at the Field Museum. It was very interesting...and I learned about the FLEMISH cartographer, mathematician, and scientist, Gerhard Mercator, who invented the cartesian system of cartography known as the Mercator Projection. When he came up with it, in 1585, everyone thought is was crazy, but it is the number one system used today to accurately draw a round earth on a flat piece of paper.
Leslie
louisev:
morning everyone,
we finally had a "cold snap" here in northern California, and all the leaves fell off the trees at the same time! Fall fell! in one overnight!
a little tough to get used to, shivering suddenly...! I guess it's time for more warm socks!
Front-Ranger:
Congratulations David and Ellemeno for joining the purple club! Elle, I was wondering what all that sudden verbosity was about!!
belbbmfan:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on November 12, 2007, 02:16:41 pm ---Thanks, Fabienne! It is good to be home.
While in Chicago, we went to a Map Exhibition at the Field Museum. It was very interesting...and I learned about the FLEMISH cartographer, mathematician, and scientist, Gerhard Mercator, who invented the cartesian system of cartography known as the Mercator Projection. When he came up with it, in 1585, everyone thought is was crazy, but it is the number one system used today to accurately draw a round earth on a flat piece of paper.
Leslie
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Ah, a famous Belgian, there aren't many of those around. Did you know that he launched the word 'atlas' for a collection of maps in a book.
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