User: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

Link to 31 Dec 2015 version of Gerardus Mercator


/Notes for Erskine

/Draft for Kirkhill

/Visitor page

/Notes

/Draft for Gerardus Mercator

/Notes for Gerardus Mercator

/Draft for Legendre

/Draft for OS national grid

/Map gallery

/Draft figures

/References

/Examples of Tables

/Sandbox

/Work in progress

/Math snippets

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

Gerardus Mercator

Latitude

Mercator projection

Meridian arc

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

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