Category:Mercator's Projection

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Mercator's projection is the geometric projection of a sphere $\SS$ onto the plane.

It is obtained by:

circumscribing a cylinder $\CC$ about $\SS$

projecting each point $P$ on the surface of $\SS$ onto $\CC$ along the ray from the center of $\SS$ through $P$

unrolling $\CC$ onto the plane.