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Epic card · Science
Mercator projection, an Epic card
The Mercator projection is a conformal cylindrical map projection first presented by Flemish geographer and mapmaker Gerardus Mercator in 1569.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 74
- Power
- 152
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 580,000
Ranked #1541 of 3,000 cards by power (ATK + DEF) in the base set.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In the 18th century, it became the standard map projection for navigation due to its property of representing rhumb lines as straight lines.
- When applied to world maps, the Mercator projection inflates the size of lands the farther they are from the equator.
- Therefore, landmasses such as Greenland and Antarctica appear far larger than they actually are relative to landmasses near the equator.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Mercator projection article was read about 580,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 78 and blocks with 74: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Mercator projection
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Mercator projection (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Strebe, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.







