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English: Title page of Certaine Errors in Navigation (2nd ed., 1610) by English mathematician and cartographer Edward Wright (1561–1615). The book was the first to set out the mathematics of the Mercator projection.
Source

University of Virginia library. See Novus Orbis: Images of the New World, part 2. From the exhibition "Lewis & Clark: The Maps of Exploration 1507–1814", Albert H. and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia
Date

1610.
Author

Edward Wright.
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current09:56, 2 May 2008650×808 (139 KB)Jheald (Cleaner copy, from the updated version of the University of Virgina online exhibition)
09:25, 2 May 2008488×657 (405 KB)Jheald (Larger image, from the University of Virginia)
20:11, 1 May 2008158×234 (64 KB)Jheald ({{Information |Description=Frontispiece of Edward Wright's ''Certaine Errors in Navigation'' (1599), which was the first to set out the mathematics of the Mercator projection |Source= [http://www.longcamp.com/gifs/wrig)
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