Mercator_and_Etzlaub.png (378 × 381 pixels, file size: 157 KB, MIME type: image/png)
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English: This a modified version of File shown in "other versions" which was taken from website
http://www.wilhelmkruecken.de/Etzlaub/etzlaub.htm On the original image the appended Mercator scale is hardly visible. Two clearer scales have been added. On the left is a version of Mercator adjusted to fit with Erzlaub at 60 degrees. The agreement of scale is fortuitous. On the right is a Mercator scale adjusted to have the same width as Erzlaub's at the equator. The monochrome map has been replaced by a coloured version from http://www.wilhelmkruecken.de/Etzlaub/etzlaub.htm (Inverted to make the map recognisable at the expense of making the text inverted. The following text is from the original image (File:Erhard Etzlaub 1511 Sundial miniature map.png). Miniature map from outside of hinged lid of Etzlaub's 1511 sundial. Size is 93x65 mm, orientation is "South-up", no longitudes are given. Latitudes printed in grey numbers (see right margin) were calculated by Krücken (2004, see "Source") for a Mercator projection of same area and prove that Etzlaub's approach was completely different. These maps were designed to adjust sundials (called "Kompast" [sic!] in late medieval German) for user's latitude. Instructions were given by Etzlaub in Codex ad Compastum Norembergensem which was kept by Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Germany, but seems lost. |
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| current | 20:18, 7 August 2010 | | 378 × 381 (157 KB) | Peter Mercator | Adjust scales. |
| 11:33, 6 August 2010 |  | 381 × 379 (93 KB) | Peter Mercator | {{Information |Description={{en|1=This a modified version of File:Erhard Etzlaub 1511 Sundial miniature map.png which was taken from website http://www.wilhelmkruecken.de/Etzlaub/etzlaub.htm On the original image the appended on the right (the Mercator |
