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 presented by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in...

collection of maps since the 16th century when Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator published his work in honour of the mythological Titan. The "Atlantic...

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

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

Rumold Mercator (Leuven, 1541 – Duisburg, 31 December 1599) was a cartographer and the son of cartographer Gerardus Mercator. He completed some at the...

cartographer Gerardus Mercator, a 16th-century cartographer Mercator 1569 world map Mercator projection, a cartographic projection devised by Gerardus Mercator Rumold...

sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including those of Gerardus Mercator and his successors. Mercator described the island in a 1577 letter to John Dee: In...

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

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)...

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

Leonardo da Vinci's Windsor papers World map by Gerardus Mercator (1569), first map in the well-known Mercator projection Kunyu Wanguo Quantu (Ming dynasty...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Sfax in 1571. The projection appears in many Renaissance maps, and Gerardus Mercator used it for an inset of the north polar regions in sheet 13 and legend...

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

computer cartography and thematic mapping Gerardus Mercator (1512–1594) – cartographer who produced the mercator projection Mark Monmonier (born 1943) –...

three-dimensional sphere known as a globe. The Mercator Projection, developed by Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator, was widely used as the standard two-dimensional...

science, the anatomist Andreas Vesalius led the way; in cartography, Gerardus Mercator's map assisted explorers and navigators. In art, Dutch and Flemish...

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...

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

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

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

geographical context dates from 1595 when the German-Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator published Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi...

Early Modern flourishing of Western Europe included cartographer Gerardus Mercator, anatomist Andreas Vesalius, herbalist Rembert Dodoens and mathematician...

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

eldest son of cartographer Gerardus Mercator and a brother of Rumold Mercator. Arnold was the eldest child of Gerardus Mercator and Barbara Schellekens from...