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Gerardus Mercator

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Gerardus Mercator , Latin form of Gerhard Kremer , 1512-94, Flemish geographer, mathematician, and cartographer. He studied in Louvain , where he had a geographical establishment (1534). From 1537 to 1540 he surveyed and mapped Flanders . In 1538 he produced his first map of the world (based on Ptolemy's map); in 1541 he made a terrestrial, and in 1551 a celestial, globe. He was appointed (1552) to the chair of cosmography in Duisburg. In 1554 he made a six-sheet map of Europe. The first map using the projection (the translation of the spherical earth to a two-dimensional flat plane)... Read more
Mercator, Gerardus
World Encyclopedia Mercator, Gerardus (1512–94) Flemish cartographer. His huge world map of 1569 employed the system of projection now named after him, in which lines of longitude, as well as latitude, appear as straight, parallel lines. Read more
Mercator projection
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea Mercator projection, the chart projection ... a Latinized form of his name, Gerardus Mercator. However, it was another 70 years ... of great value for navigation . Mercator's own description of his chart ... Errors in Navigation (1599), and Mercator charts and Mercator sailing eventually ... Read more

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