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Mercator (Latin for "merchant") may refer to: • Marius Mercator (c. 390–451), a Catholic ecclesiastical writer • Gerardus Mercator, a 16th-century Flemish cartographer • Mercator projection, a cartog...
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Gerard Mercator's parents were Hubert and Emerentia Kremer. Hubert Kremer worked the land and also was a cobbler, that is a shoemaker. Hubert and Emerentia were people of lowly status but Hubert ... As a new name he chose Mercator, the Latin for 'merchant' and gave himself the full name of Gerardus Mercator de Rupelmonde.
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Mercator map projection was invented by Gerardus Mercator as a navigation tool ... ; Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594); Frontispiece to Mercator's Atlas sive Cosmographicae, 1585-1595.; Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Rare Book Division, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection.
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Gerard Mercator (1512-1594) ... Gerardus Mercator was a Flemish map-maker and geographer who is best known for the map projection which bears his name. ... Honours awarded to Gerard Mercator; (Click below for those honoured in this way)
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GERARDUS MERCATOR ; 1518 - 1594 ... Gerhard Kremer, or Gerardus Mercator was the leading mapmaker of the 15th Century. ... Gerardus Mercator was born March 5, 1518, in Dumpelunde, Flanders (Belgium). He died Dec. 2, 1594, in Duisburg, Duchy of Cleve (Germany). His original name was Gerard de Kremer. Gerardus's father was...
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Gerard Mercator was born as Gerard de Cremer on March 5th in 1512 in Rupelmonde, which is located close to Antwerp and Sint-Niklaas in the northern part of Belgium. However he always signed his most important work as Gerardus Mercator Rupelmondanus and thus showed his attachment with his native region.
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artelino - Short Biography of cartographer Gerardus Mercator 1512-1594 ... Gerardus Mercator was a geographer, cartographer and mathematician born in Flanders. He is best known for a new mapping technique that bears his name, the Mercator projection. The quality of his maps made them a copy source for generations of mapmakers.
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More on Gerardus Mercator from Infoplease: ... March 5 Birthdays: Gerardus Mercator - March 5 birthdays: Gerardus Mercator, Charles Goodnight, Rosa Luxemburg, Antoine Cadillac, Rex Harrison, Lady Augusta Gregory ... Gerardus Mercator (1512-94): known as the prince of modern geographers, Mercator was the first to use the...
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