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\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mercator projection is not useful for a so-called polar projection. For the North Pole projection, the North Pole is projected perpendicularly from the South Pole and then any point on a flat sheet (placed on the North Pole) (the so-called azimuthal projection). Thus, all meridians become lines departing from the North Pole and the parallels (or latitudes) become concentric circles centered on the North Pole. When Jodocus Hondius purchases the copper plates from Mercator’s legacy, including his North Pole map from 1595, he will continue to use this “archaic” design (where the water disappears into the North Pole!) Until 1634. Not until 1636 did Henricus Hondius publish a new Poli Arctici with significant changes: no imaginative imagination, but a restriction to the representation of verified knowledge, so neither an evocation of four islands, but a body of water.<\/p>\n
This leads to, among other things, the Canadian side of the North Pole being left open and Greenland and Nova Zembla not being completed. The imaginary Fryslandt is also omitted (for a discussion see V.5.2). The sources for this map are mainly English, including Henry Briggs and Thomas James. The Hudson Bay is faithfully depicted, thanks to the former. James, on the other hand, thought that Baffin was indeed an island. The bay, south of Hudson Bay, was named after him. Finally, note the Dutch nomenclature for many locations in Labrador, Greenland and Iceland. Oceanus Deucaledonius was the name for the North Atlantic Ocean. All corners are embellished with views of whaling. The copper plate later passed into the hands of Frederik de Wit and was printed until 1715.<\/p>\n
The Azimuth North Pole projection is incorporated in the flag of the UN:<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The world from “above”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7535,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_cat":[133],"product_tag":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n