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== External links == {{Commons category|Mercator projections}} *[http://wilhelmkruecken.de/index.htm Ad maiorem Gerardi Mercatoris gloriam] β contains high-resolution images of the 1569 world map by Mercator. *[http://www.radicalcartography.net/?projectionref Table of examples and properties of all common projections], from radicalcartography.net. *[https://web.archive.org/web/20170907195627/http://www.uff.br/mapprojections/Mercator_en.html An interactive Java Applet to study the metric deformations of the Mercator Projection]. *[http://www.math.ubc.ca/~israel/m103/mercator/mercator.html Mercator's Projection at University of British Columbia] *[https://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/overlays.html#Google_Maps_Coordinates ''Google Maps Coordinates''] *[https://mrgris.com/projects/merc-extreme/ Mercator Extreme] {{Map projection}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:Conformal projections]] [[Category:16th-century inventions]] [[Category:Early modern Netherlandish cartography]] [[Category:Cylindrical projections]]
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