Gerardus Mercator

Noun

Meaning

Flemish geographer who lived in Germany; he invented the Mercator projection of maps of the globe (1512-1594)

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

Mercator Gerhard Kremer

Examples

Scientists, such as Gerardus Mercator (1569) and Alexander Dalrymple as late as 1767 argued for its existence, with such arguments as that there should be a large landmass in the south as a counterweight to the known landmasses in the Northern Hemisphere. Source: Internet

That page contains details of the map and translations of the texts The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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