Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.8
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
12537
Points per Word
0.00016
Page Count
112
Points per Page
0.017857
Description
This biography profiles the life of sixteenth-century cartographer Gerardus Mercator, who invented a method of projecting the curvature of Earth's surface onto a flat sheet of paper.