Mercator projection (English Wikipedia)

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"Mercator Projection vs. Peters Projection, part 1". Matt T. Rosenberg, about.com.

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Snyder 1987, p. 38. Snyder, John P. (1987), Map Projections – A Working Manual. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. This paper can be downloaded from USGS pages. It gives full details of most projections, together with interesting introductory sections, but it does not derive any of the projections from first principles.
Monmonier 2004, p. 72. Monmonier, Mark (2004), Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection (Hardcover ed.), Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-53431-6
Monmonier 2004, p. 124–128. Monmonier, Mark (2004), Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection (Hardcover ed.), Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-53431-6
Snyder 1987, pp. 37–95. Snyder, John P. (1987), Map Projections – A Working Manual. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. This paper can be downloaded from USGS pages. It gives full details of most projections, together with interesting introductory sections, but it does not derive any of the projections from first principles.
Snyder. Working Manual, page 20. Snyder, John P. (1987), Map Projections – A Working Manual. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. This paper can be downloaded from USGS pages. It gives full details of most projections, together with interesting introductory sections, but it does not derive any of the projections from first principles.
Snyder 1987, p. 20; Snyder 1993, pp. 147–149. Snyder, John P. (1987), Map Projections – A Working Manual. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. This paper can be downloaded from USGS pages. It gives full details of most projections, together with interesting introductory sections, but it does not derive any of the projections from first principles. Snyder, John P (1993), Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-76747-7
Klein, Felix (2004). Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint: Geometry. Mineola, N.Y: Dover Publications. pp. 103–104. ISBN 978-0-486-43481-0.

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Miyajima, Kazuhiko (1998). "Projection Methods in Chinese, Korean and Japanese Star Maps". Highlights of Astronomy. 11 (2): 712–715. doi:10.1017/s1539299600018554.
Nicolai, R. (2015). "The Premedieval Origin of Portolan Charts: New Geodetic Evidence". Isis. 106 (3): 517–543. doi:10.1086/683532. hdl:1874/327279. PMID 26685516.
Nicolai, R. (2015). "The Premedieval Origin of Portolan Charts: New Geodetic Evidence". Isis. 106 (3): 517–543. doi:10.1086/683532. hdl:1874/327279. PMID 26685516.
Leitão, Henrique; Gaspar, Joaquim Alves (2014-07-03). "Globes, Rhumb Tables, and the Pre-History of the Mercator Projection". Imago Mundi. 66 (2): 180–195. doi:10.1080/03085694.2014.902580. ISSN 0308-5694.
Lapaine, Miljenko (2024). "A problem in 'Basic Cartography'". International Journal of Cartography. 10 (1): 118–131. Bibcode:2024IJCar..10..118L. doi:10.1080/23729333.2022.2157106.
Kerkovits, Krisztián (2024). "Secant Cylinders Are Evil – A Case Study on the Standard Lines of the Universal Transverse Mercator and Universal Polar Stereographic Projections". ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 13 (2): 56. Bibcode:2024IJGI...13...56K. doi:10.3390/ijgi13020056.
Frederick Rickey, V.; Tuchinsky, Philip M. (May 1980). "An application of geography to mathematics: history of the integral of the secant". Mathematics Magazine. 53 (3): 164. doi:10.2307/2690106. JSTOR 2690106. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
Osborne 2013, pp. 39–40. Osborne, Peter (14 November 2013), The Mercator Projections, doi:10.5281/zenodo.35392 (Supplements: Maxima files and Latex code and figures)
Battersby, Sarah E.; Finn, Michael P.; Usery, E. Lynn; Yamamoto, Kristina H. (June 1, 2014). "Implications of Web Mercator and Its Use in Online Mapping". Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization. 49 (2): 85–101. doi:10.3138/carto.49.2.2313. ISSN 0317-7173.
Osborne 2013, Chapter 2 Osborne, Peter (14 November 2013), The Mercator Projections, doi:10.5281/zenodo.35392 (Supplements: Maxima files and Latex code and figures)
Osborne 2013, Chapters 5, 6 Osborne, Peter (14 November 2013), The Mercator Projections, doi:10.5281/zenodo.35392 (Supplements: Maxima files and Latex code and figures)

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Battersby, Sarah E.; Finn, Michael P.; Usery, E. Lynn; Yamamoto, Kristina H. (June 1, 2014). "Implications of Web Mercator and Its Use in Online Mapping". Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization. 49 (2): 85–101. doi:10.3138/carto.49.2.2313. ISSN 0317-7173.

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Nicolai, R. (2015). "The Premedieval Origin of Portolan Charts: New Geodetic Evidence". Isis. 106 (3): 517–543. doi:10.1086/683532. hdl:1874/327279. PMID 26685516.
Nicolai, R. (2015). "The Premedieval Origin of Portolan Charts: New Geodetic Evidence". Isis. 106 (3): 517–543. doi:10.1086/683532. hdl:1874/327279. PMID 26685516.

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Lapaine, Miljenko (2024). "A problem in 'Basic Cartography'". International Journal of Cartography. 10 (1): 118–131. Bibcode:2024IJCar..10..118L. doi:10.1080/23729333.2022.2157106.
Kerkovits, Krisztián (2024). "Secant Cylinders Are Evil – A Case Study on the Standard Lines of the Universal Transverse Mercator and Universal Polar Stereographic Projections". ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 13 (2): 56. Bibcode:2024IJGI...13...56K. doi:10.3390/ijgi13020056.

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Shalowitz, Aaron L. (1969). "The Chart that Made Navigation History". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 59 (7–9): 180–186. JSTOR 24535986.
Frederick Rickey, V.; Tuchinsky, Philip M. (May 1980). "An application of geography to mathematics: history of the integral of the secant". Mathematics Magazine. 53 (3): 164. doi:10.2307/2690106. JSTOR 2690106. Retrieved 18 August 2022.

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"Why Mercator for the Web? Isn't the Mercator bad?". www.mapthematics.com. Retrieved 2024-11-12.^{[self-published source]}

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"This animated map shows the true size of each country". Nature Index. 2019-08-27. Retrieved 2023-06-20.

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Nicolai, R. (2015). "The Premedieval Origin of Portolan Charts: New Geodetic Evidence". Isis. 106 (3): 517–543. doi:10.1086/683532. hdl:1874/327279. PMID 26685516.
Nicolai, R. (2015). "The Premedieval Origin of Portolan Charts: New Geodetic Evidence". Isis. 106 (3): 517–543. doi:10.1086/683532. hdl:1874/327279. PMID 26685516.

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NIST. See Sections 4.26#ii and 4.23#viii Olver, F. W.J.; Lozier, D.W.; Boisvert, R.F.; et al., eds. (2010), NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions, Cambridge University Press

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Leitão, Henrique; Gaspar, Joaquim Alves (2014-07-03). "Globes, Rhumb Tables, and the Pre-History of the Mercator Projection". Imago Mundi. 66 (2): 180–195. doi:10.1080/03085694.2014.902580. ISSN 0308-5694.

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Snyder 1987, p. 38. Snyder, John P. (1987), Map Projections – A Working Manual. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. This paper can be downloaded from USGS pages. It gives full details of most projections, together with interesting introductory sections, but it does not derive any of the projections from first principles.
Snyder 1987, pp. 37–95. Snyder, John P. (1987), Map Projections – A Working Manual. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. This paper can be downloaded from USGS pages. It gives full details of most projections, together with interesting introductory sections, but it does not derive any of the projections from first principles.
Snyder. Working Manual, page 20. Snyder, John P. (1987), Map Projections – A Working Manual. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. This paper can be downloaded from USGS pages. It gives full details of most projections, together with interesting introductory sections, but it does not derive any of the projections from first principles.
Snyder 1987, p. 20; Snyder 1993, pp. 147–149. Snyder, John P. (1987), Map Projections – A Working Manual. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. This paper can be downloaded from USGS pages. It gives full details of most projections, together with interesting introductory sections, but it does not derive any of the projections from first principles. Snyder, John P (1993), Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-76747-7

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Snyder, John P.; Philip M., Voxland (1989). An album of map projections. Professional Paper 1453. Government Printing Office. p. 218.

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Javaid, Maham; Kai Chen, Janice; Meko, Tim (2025-08-26). "Here's how Africa wants to redraw the world map". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2025-08-28.

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See great-circle distance, the Vincenty's formulae, or Mathworld.
"Mercator Projection".

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Leitão, Henrique; Gaspar, Joaquim Alves (2014-07-03). "Globes, Rhumb Tables, and the Pre-History of the Mercator Projection". Imago Mundi. 66 (2): 180–195. doi:10.1080/03085694.2014.902580. ISSN 0308-5694.
Battersby, Sarah E.; Finn, Michael P.; Usery, E. Lynn; Yamamoto, Kristina H. (June 1, 2014). "Implications of Web Mercator and Its Use in Online Mapping". Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization. 49 (2): 85–101. doi:10.3138/carto.49.2.2313. ISSN 0317-7173.

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Osborne 2013, pp. 39–40. Osborne, Peter (14 November 2013), The Mercator Projections, doi:10.5281/zenodo.35392 (Supplements: Maxima files and Latex code and figures)
Osborne 2013, Chapter 2 Osborne, Peter (14 November 2013), The Mercator Projections, doi:10.5281/zenodo.35392 (Supplements: Maxima files and Latex code and figures)
Osborne 2013, Chapters 5, 6 Osborne, Peter (14 November 2013), The Mercator Projections, doi:10.5281/zenodo.35392 (Supplements: Maxima files and Latex code and figures)

Mercator projection (English Wikipedia)

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