Gerardus Mercator (/dʒɪˈrɑːrdəs mɜːrˈkeɪtər/; 5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer. He is most renowned...

The Mercator projection (/mərˈkeɪtər/) is a conformal cylindrical map projection first presented by Flemish geographer and mapmaker Gerardus Mercator in...

globe properly adapted for use in navigation"). The title shows that Gerardus Mercator aimed to present contemporary knowledge of the geography of the world...

Mercator is a steel-hulled barquentine built in 1932 as a training ship for the Belgian merchant fleet. She was named after Gerardus Mercator (1512–1594)...

Rumold Mercator (Leuven, 1541 – Duisburg, 31 December 1599) was a cartographer, son of Gerardus Mercator and brother of Arnold Mercator, both also cartographers...

Gerardus Mercator. It is located to the southeast of the crater Campanus, and the two are separated by a narrow, winding valley. The Rupes Mercator fault...

transverse Mercator projection is a variant of the Mercator projection, which was originally developed by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator...

nymph Calypso who lived on the island Ogygia. Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator characterized Atlas as the founder of geography, leading to the modern...

Mercator (Latin for "merchant") often refers to the Mercator projection, a cartographic projection named after its inventor, Gerardus Mercator. Mercator...

many cartographers held to Aristotle's opinion. Scientists such as Gerardus Mercator (1569) and Alexander Dalrymple as late as 1767 argued for its existence...

cartographer Gerardus Mercator and a brother of Rumold Mercator.He was also the teacher of Peppe Brescia Arnold was the eldest child of Gerardus Mercator and Barbara...

Magnetic Pole or at the geographic North Pole itself. Described by Gerardus Mercator as 33 French miles in size, it provided a supposed explanation for...

rings, an astronomical instrument, are named after him. Along with Gerardus Mercator and Abraham Ortelius, Frisius is often considered one of the founders...

Penangsang. 1569: Rising of the North in England. 1569: Mercator 1569 world map published by Gerardus Mercator. 1569: The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is created...

Terrarum, first published in 1564 World map by Gerardus Mercator (1569), first map in the well-known Mercator projection Kunyu Wanguo Quantu (Ming dynasty...

studied under Gemma Frisius and became friends with the cartographers Gerardus Mercator and Abraham Ortelius. Dee also met, worked and learnt from other continental...

Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World). Along with Gemma Frisius and Gerardus Mercator, Ortelius is generally considered one of the founders of the Netherlandish...

(1886–1966) – creator of the concentric zone model. Gerardus Mercator (1512–1594) – cartographer who produced the Mercator projection John Francon Williams (1854–1911)...

what is probably Belgium's only tidemill. It is the birthplace of Gerardus Mercator, (1512–1594) the Flemish cartographer, who was imprisoned for several...

football, water polo, and field hockey. Gerardus Mercator (1512–1594), Flemish cartographer, inventor of the Mercator projection Ludwig Susen (1807–1863)...

975–1051), Belgian bishop of Cambrai Gerardus Cremonensis (c.1114–1187), Italian translator of scientific books Gerardus Mercator (1512–1594), Netherlandish cartographer...

referring to what is now known as South America. Later, in 1538, Gerardus Mercator expanded the use of the term America to designate the entire continent...

also have been projected onto globes. The Mercator Projection, developed by Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator, was widely used as the standard for two-dimensional...

its use on maps, is found in a letter from the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator to the English astronomer John Dee dated April 20, 1577, now located...

An arctic continent on the Gerardus Mercator map of 1595....

on maps between the 15th and 18th centuries. Scientists, such as Gerardus Mercator (1569) and Alexander Dalrymple as late as 1767 argued for its existence...

New Land). In 1534, Joachim von Watt labelled it simply America. Gerardus Mercator applied the names North and South America on his influential 1538...

first make Cathay the northeastern section of China (e.g. 1595 map by Gerardus Mercator), or, later, a region separated by China by the Great Wall and possibly...

well-known resident was cartographer Gerard Kremer, better known as Gerardus Mercator, who lived the first five or six years of his life there. Gangelt...

rise to adding historical eclipses to tables, like in the case of Gerardus Mercator.[citation needed] Various graphical experiments emerged, from fitting...