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In this fascinating evening writer, journalist and adventurer Nicholas Crane talks about his most recent book on Gerard Mercator the man who coined the world projection is still being used by NASA today. Mercator succeeded in solving the dimensional riddle that had vexed people for so long. But how could this three-dimensional globe be converted into a two-dimensional map? Mercators achievement not only revolutionised navigation, but also laid the foundations for how we understand the world today.