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Commercial brokerage launches new course.(company named according to Gerardus Mercator)(Brief article)
Best's Review; 6/1/2006; Dankwa, David; 108 words
; ... is a company named after Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator. New York-based Mercator Risk Services, led by Chief Executive Officer ... built around specialization and customer service Mercator's strategy has gained the approval of some significant ...
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Gerardus Mercator (1512-94): known as the prince of modern geographers, Mercator was the first to use the term `atlas' and was the cream of the cartographic crop in an age of geographical discovery. (Late great geographers).(Brief Article)
Geographical; 8/1/2002; 655 words
; For what is Mercator famous? A humble man with a universal vision, Mercator coined the term `atlas ... standard term for a book of maps. In 1538 he produced his ... bearings. Known as the Mercator Projection, it revolutionised ... What was his background? Mercator was born Gerard Kremer ... did Gerard ...
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Keeping cartography in the family: single-sheet map of Europe by Gerardus Mercator and son, 1590s.(Map Of The Month)(Brief Article)
Geographical; 5/1/2004; 274 words
; ... work of the famed cartographer Gerard Mercator (1512-94). On his death, Mercator had left unfinished the modern atlas ... five-volume cosmography. Among the last maps on which he was engaged were those ... I of England, and contributing two maps of his own: the double-hemisphere ... Europe. In 1604, the ...
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The Mercator Projection.(Poem)
TriQuarterly; 10/1/2002; Eimers, Nancy; 719 words
; The Mercator Projection The italic hand commended ... elegance. R. A. Skelton, foreword to Mercator: A monograph on the lettering of maps, etc. in the 16th century Netherlands ... undetectable rises of hills. In 1569 Gerardus Mercator unwrapped the skin of the world from ... release ink a flow but ...
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GIVE IT BACK, MERCATOR MISLEADS
The Columbian; 3/2/2001; Columbian; 787 words
; ... Elizabeth Hovde, for the editorial board MERCATOR MISLEADS Entirely contrary to the maps hanging on the walls of most classrooms ... The villain of the dramatic subtext was Gerardus Mercator, a German cartographer who produced his ...
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WEEKEND BIRTHDAYS
The Press; 3/5/2005; 153 words
; Today: Gerardus Mercator, Flemish geographer- mathematician (1512- 1594); Rex Harrison, British actor (1908-1990); Dean Stockwell, US actor (1936); Fred ...
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Online maps take a new direction
The Boston Globe; 8/5/2007; Scott Kirsner; 787 words
; ... the great cartographers Gerardus Mercator, Abraham Ortelius, and ... simple, two- dimensional maps and directions from websites ... Microsoft, which have made maps more fluid and three-dimensional ... images of cities and push maps around on a screen to ...
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Week 720: The Course of Humor Events
The Washington Post; 7/1/2007; 787 words
; 1521: Martin Luther could not stomach the Diet of Worms. 1544: Cartographer Gerardus Mercator was imprisoned for heresy: Religious authorities refused to give him any latitude. About three years back, we ran a great set of ...
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Tycho Brahe: Pioneer of Astronomy.(Book review)
Science Scope; 6/22/2008; Cosentino, Teri; 345 words
; ... by Tycho Brahe, Robert Hooke, Gerardus Mercator, and Sir Isaac Newton. In 150 ... lives? Of the four scientists, Mercator was poor, Newton's family had ... Tragedies abound in each biography. Mercator was sent to prison for heresy ...
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Anniversaries
The Independent - London; 12/2/1996; 65 words
; ... Giovanni Battista) Barbirolli, conductor, 1899; Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia Callas , operatic soprano, 1923. Deaths: Gerardus Mercator (Gerhard Kaufmann), cartographer, 1594; Philip Arthur Larkin, poet, 1985. On this day: King Camp Gillette patented ...
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