1889, Ugo Balzani, The Popes and the Hohenstaufen, Longmans, Green, and Co.

The Mercator has been a favorite schoolroom map because it shows almost the whole world simply—in a single continuous panel. It does not seem to distort shapes.

With its molten temperatures, sulphuric acid clouds, and crushing carbon dioxide atmosphere, Venus has only a handful of aerostat research outposts.

The multimaster model makes the replica and partition terminology much harder to distinguish, […]