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Mercator by Wright stretching.svg en Showing how Edward Wright calculated the Mercator parallels On an equirectangular projection calculate the parallel scale factor for one strip at mid height and use this value to widen the strip Wright actually used strips and later strips to obtain highly accurate results own Peter Mercator