Question
This cartographer’s Cosmologia was the first of the lavish atlases of the Dutch Golden Age. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this cartographer whose cylindrical projection misleadingly implies that Greenland is almost as large as Africa.
ANSWER: Gerardus Mercator [or Gerard Kremer; accept Mercator projection]
[10m] Mercator’s 1569 world map became the model for nautical charts because it showed these paths of constant bearing as parallel lines. This term can also refer to the confusing windrose networks of pre-modern portolan maps.
ANSWER: rhumb lines [or loxodromes or rhumbline networks]
[10h] Mercator’s misses include his placement of this nonexistent natural feature in the middle of a large whirlpool at the North Pole. The author of Inventio Fortunata claimed to have seen this source of Earth’s magnetic field.
ANSWER: Rupes Nigra [or Black Rock; prompt on answers that indicate a large magnetic rock]
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