Image: Wright Certaine Errors
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Description: 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.
Title: Wright Certaine Errors
Credit: 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
Author: Edward Wright.
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