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Re: Mercator projection in the news
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2025 Aug 27, 06:39 -0700
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2025 Aug 27, 06:39 -0700
Frank,
You wrote:
"The Mercator projection is junk. It should have been consigned to the dustbin of history by the late twentieth century, and, in fact, that's where it was headed."
I did not expect this from you. Does not the same apply to the whole subject of traditional Celestial navigation? (Traditional means using stars rather than artificial satellites.) And to many other things that people are doing?
Alex.
