地质学家可用麦卡托投影来绘制古生界沉积中的水流方向。
Mercator might be used by a geologist mapping current directions in palaeozoic sediment.
是偏见和麦卡托投影所造成的假象阻碍了我们对广袤非洲大陆的认识。
Only prejudice, and the trick of the Mercator projection, prevents us from recognizing the enormity of the African continent.
过去常被钉在教室墙上而且常出现在地图册中的那幅地图以墨卡托投影著称，最早是由弗兰德地理学家杰拉杜斯·麦卡托提出来的，可追溯至1569年。
The map you're used to seeing pinned on classroom walls and in Atlases is known as a Mercator projection, and was first presented by the Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator back in 1569.
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