Multiple choice

During Europe’s age of exploration, Mercator’s most enduring contribution to navigational science was

  1. map projection

  2. dead reckoning

  3. accurate polar charts

  4. shipboard telescope use
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Explanation

Gerardus Mercator is famous for the Mercator projection, a cylindrical map projection that became the standard for nautical navigation due to its ability to represent lines of constant course as straight lines.

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