The true story of Gerard Mercator the greatest map-maker of all time who was condemned to death as a heretic. 'Geographie and Chronologie I may call the Sunne and the Moone the right eye and the left of all history.' In 'The World of Gerard Mercator' Andrew Taylor chronicles both the story of a great astronomer and mathematician who was condemned to death as a heretic and the history of that most fascinating conjunction of science and art: the drawing of maps. Gerard Mercator was born in Fla