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Imprisoned for heresy, Gerardus Mercator later created a map that transformed navigation forever. We explore why his projection distorts the world, how it solved a deadly problem for sailors, and the astonishing mystery of how he used math that hadn’t even been invented yet to do it all.
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0:00 – A Prisoner of the Inquisition
1:52 – The Navigation Crisis
4:22 – Who Was This Mercator Guy, Anyway?
8:02 – Globes & Heresy
10:45 – Why Flat Maps Are Mathematically Impossible
13:27 – The Math Mystery Behind the Mercator Map
16:11 – How Mercator Used Math That Didn’t Exist Yet
19:40 – You’re Using This Map Right Now
22:56 – Is This Map Harmful?
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Written Joe Hanson
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