Gerardus Mercator, 1569 — the chart that made ocean navigation tractable.
Conformal: angles are preserved, so a course of constant bearing is a straight line. That is why it ruled navigation for four centuries, and why Greenland looks the size of Africa — area inflates without limit toward the poles.
Preserves: angles and local shapes preserved.
Gerardus Mercator, 1569 — the chart that made ocean navigation tractable. Conformal: angles are preserved, so a course of constant bearing is a straight line.
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