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Gerardus Mercator
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Noun1.Gerardus Mercator - Flemish geographer who lived in GermanyGerardus Mercator - Flemish geographer who lived in Germany; he invented the Mercator projection of maps of the globe (1512-1594)
Gerhard Kremer, Mercator
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Andrew Taylor's World Of Gerard Mercator (0802713777, $26.
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Gerard Mercator, born early in the 16th century to a cobbler in northern Europe, would be the man to solve the riddle that had vexed cartographers for so long: how to convert a three-dimensional globe into a two-dimensional map without losing compass bearings.
Mercator: the Man Who Mapped the Planet by Science News
Mercator by Nicholas Crane (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 20) YOU may never have heard of Gerard Mercator but you would be lost without him - because he is the father of map-making.
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