The mercator projection is one of the most used world map projection.

麦卡托式是最常用的世界地图投影法。

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This was not a big problem from 16th-century sailors, of course, and the Mercator projection remains popular to this day.

当然，对于16世纪的水手来说，这不是一个大问题，如今 仍然很普遍。

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Only prejudice, and the trick of the Mercator projection, prevents us from recognizing the enormity of the African continent.

是偏见和麦卡托投影所造成的假象阻碍了我们对广袤非洲大陆的认识。

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He also gave his name to the standard way in which world maps were represented (the Mercator projection).

BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | Scholar revives ancient subject

Cumulatively, these resulted in the famous projection map of Gerardus Mercator in 1569, a plan of the world that still forms the basis of schoolroom teaching and Google Maps.

WSJ: Lost in Our Maps: A History of Cartographic Catastrophes