Who was Gerardus Mercator?

UTM grid coordinates =universal transverse mercator, still used today as lat. and long.

The explanation should’ve started with what a cartographer is for those normal people that don’t know this and is trying to learn.

FASINATING 😮

map maker

faggu i'm getting hungry

And we are still using his work today. What an impact.

Sis, the line of demarcation is on the 0 degree line

Classie, yeah that's exactly what I was thinking unfortunately everyone isn't a wordsmith and or born with a dictionary in your hand when we are born hahaha 😆 😉 even though I have heard about him before apparently he managed to make the map of Antarctica without it being covered in ice making scientists rewrite the history cause you can't have it both ways either the global iceage froze that part of the world thousands of years ago or something else in a more recent time period managed to freeze that part of the world