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| Keywords: Mercator by Wright stretching.svg en Showing how Edward Wright calculated the Mercator parallels On an equirectangular projection calculate the parallel scale factor for one strip at mid height and use this value to widen the strip Wright actually used 540 strips 1599 and later 5400 strips 1610 to obtain highly accurate results own Peter Mercator 2010-08-06 cc-zero Mercator projections Edward Wright mathematician SVG diagrams Diagrams labelled with numbers only | ||||
