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12h 55min, mar 5, 1512 y - gerardus mercator

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His huge world map of 1569 employed the system of projection now named after him, in which lines of longitude, as well as latitude, appear as straight, parallel lines.

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12h 55min, mar 5, 1512 y
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~ 514 years ago