Peter Mercator

Peter Mercator, Edinburgh, Scotland

This user is a mathematical cartographer

Hello

I am currently revising several topics in the area of cartography and geodesy. My background is mathematical physics (quantum mechanics, particle physics and general relativity): I have recently retired from the staff of Edinburgh University.

Miscellaneous sub pages

/Draft for Gerardus Mercator

/Notes for Gerardus Mercator

/Draft for Legendre

/Draft for OS national grid

New pages

Anglo-French Survey (1784–1790)

Charles Henry Wilton

Directors of the Ordnance Survey

Franciscus Monachus

Legendre's theorem on spherical triangles

Mercator 1569 world map

Transverse Mercator: Redfearn series

plus minor pages.

Major rewrites

Alexander Ross Clarke

Flattening

Jock Tamson's Bairns‎

Ramsden surveying instruments

Scale (map)

Spherical trigonometry

William Roy

Page drafts

/Draft for Antonio Cagnoli

/Draft for rhumb line

/Draft for angular eccentricity

/Draft for Mercator

/Draft for scale (map)

/Draft for Scale (map) version II

/Draft for cylindrical projections