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	Gerardus Mercator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gerardus Mercator (March 5, 1512 – December 2, 1594) was a Flemish cartographer of German descent, his parents being from Gangelt in the Duchy of Jülich.
		Mercator was born Gerard de Cremere (or Kremer) in the Flemish town of Rupelmonde.
		Mercator died a respected and wealthy citzen of Duisburg and was buried in the city's main cathedral of Saint Salvatorus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gerardus_Mercator (732 words)

	GERARDUS MERCATOR - LoveToKnow Article on GERARDUS MERCATOR
		Mercator early began to incline towards Protestantism; in 1533 he had retired for a time from Louvain to Antwerp, partly to avoid inquiry into his religious beliefs; in 1544 he was arrested and prosecuted for heresy, but escaped serious consequences (two of the forty-two arrested with him were burnt, one beheaded, two buried alive).
		The organization of the university was adjourned, and never completed in Mercators lifetime; but he now became cosmographer to the duke and permanently settled on the German soil to which many of his ancestors and relatives had belonged.
		In 1554 Mercator published his great map of Europe in six sheets, three or four of which had already been pretty well worked out at Louvain; a copy of this was rediscovered at Breslau in 1889.
	53.1911encyclopedia.org /M/ME/MERCATOR_GERARDUS.htm (946 words)

	Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
		MERCATOR, GERARDUS [Mercator, Gerardus], Latin form of Gerhard Kremer, 1512-94, Flemish geographer, mathematician, and cartographer.
		In 1585, Mercator began a work (for which he coined the word atlas) that included many of his earlier maps; the atlas was completed by his son and published in 1594.
		Mercator did cartographical work for Charles V and was cosmographer to the duke of Jülich and Cleves.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:MercatG (225 words)

	Gerardus Mercator
		Gerardus Mercator was a geographer, cartographer and mathematician born in Flanders.
		Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and had studied geography, cartography and mathematics at the University of Leuven (Louvain) in Belgium.
		Mercator's main work, a three volume world atlas, was published in several editions from 1585 on and beyond his death in 1594.
	www.artelino.com /articles/gerardus_mercator.asp (394 words)

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		Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) was a great Renaissance cartographer whose work shaped the identity of the modern world.
		Mercator was born in 1512 in Flanders as Gerard de Cremere, but adopted the name Gerardus Mercator (which means merchant in Latin) as a young man. He lived through the turbulent years of the Reformation and participated in fierce intellectual battles.
		Mercator's life and work are metaphors for what we aspire to: craftsmanship, setting accurate courses, opening up new worlds and venturing upon stormy, uncharted seas.
	www.mercatornet.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=53 (312 words)

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		Mercator examined data from observations of the variation of the compass needle and its declinations “at the island of Walcheren and at Danzig” (Crane, p 146) in order to plot and chart the location of the magnetic north pole in about 1546.
		Mercator demonstrated on his globe of 1541 that a constant-true-heading course in the Northern hemisphere (such as C045T) results in a course that spirals slowly to the North pole, a new insight at that time.
		Mercator’s projection continues to be the chart and map-making standard for the regional maps of the world with the exception of polar regions where gnomonic charts are used.
	home.att.net /~pfrswr/crane_02.doc (1282 words)

	MERCATOR
		Mercator became famous in 1540 with his Map of Flanders that was dedicated to the emperor Charles the 5th.
		When Mercator presented his new world map in 1569, he immediately solved one of the most urgent problems of navigation: to draft a map on which a rhumb can be represented as a straight line.
		The basic principle of the Mercator projection (the degrees of latitude towards the poles become bigger in the same relation as the parallel circles in their relation towards the equator) is decisive for the construction.
	mathsforeurope.digibel.be /mercator.htm (2594 words)

	No. 885: Mercator's Maps
		erardus Mercator was born Gerhard Kremer in the Netherlands in 1512.
		Mercator: A monograph on the lettering of maps, etc. in the 16th century Netherlands with a facsimile and translation of his treatise on the italic hand and a translation of Ghim's VITA MERCATORIS
		Mercator, G., Gerard Mercator's Map of the world (1569) in the form of an atlas in the Maritime Museum "Prins Hendrik" at Rotterdam; reproduced on the scale of the original and issued by the Maritiem Museum "Prins Hendrik" and the editors of Image mundi, Rotterdam: 1961.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi885.htm (668 words)

	Walking Tree Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Considered by many to be the greatest cartographer of early modern times, Gerardus Mercator was born Gerhard Kremer of German parents in the town of Rapelmonde near Antwerp on March 5, 1512.
		Mercator was a mapmaker, scholar, and religious thinker whose interests ranged from mathematics to calligraphy to the origin of the universe.
		Mercator was one of the first mapmakers to cut up maps and bind them inside boards, later coining the term 'atlas' to refer to such collections of maps.
	www.walkingtree.com /mercator.html (211 words)

	Mercator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mercator is a Latin word which translates to "merchant".
		Mercator projection, a cartographic projection devised by him.
		Mercator, a middleware data transformation toolset, now incorporated in IBM WebSphere DataStage TX
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mercator (103 words)

	The Life of Gerard Mercator
		In Europe in the 16th Century, explorers had brought back many things from Asia, Africa, and the Americas; one thing they didn't always bring back was accurate maps of the land they had "discovered." Thus, the mapmakers of the time had to rely on what they had.
		Mercator was one of the first mapmakers to base his maps on his own travels and observations, and this greatly contributed to the accuracy of his maps.
		1569, Mercator unveiled his famous projection, a new way of making a map that was designed to show accurate distances between various points.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/geography/gerardmercator2.htm (390 words)

	netcyclo: Mercator, Gerardus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mercator's most important innovation was the map now known as the Mercator projection.
		After perfecting his Mercator projection, which he first used on a map of the world in 1569, he began to work on a series of publications that was intended to describe the creation of the world and its subsequent history.
		Mercator's Atlas, however, was never fully realized before his death.
	www.netcyclo.com /people/m/mercator/mercator.htm (109 words)

	The Lady - Gerardus Mercator - Putting the World on the Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mercator's life is the classic tale of the poor boy made good.
		Mercator was 10 when the tattered survivors of the world's first circumnavigatior staggered ashore from their leaky caravel in Seville.
		Mercator's Projection was also adopted for the mapping of Britain by the Ordnance Survey, which chose two degrees west as the "central meridian".
	www.lady.co.uk /articles/0353artA.cfm?framed= (918 words)

	Famous Belgians - Gerardus Mercator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mercator studied in Leuven, Belgium, under Gemma Frisius, and in 1552 he became a mapmaker and lecturer at the University of Dvisburg.
		He produced a map of the British Isles in 1564 and in the same year was made court cosmographer to Duke William of Cleve.
		Mercator's great Atlas (begun in 1569), in which he sought to describe the creation and history of the world, was printed in its unfinished state by his son in 1595.
	www.famousbelgians.net /mercator.htm (169 words)

	Mercator - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Mercator, Gerardus (1512-1594), Flemish geographer, mapmaker, and mathematician.
		He is associated with the Mercator projection, a type of map...
		Chart-making became a science in the great age of exploration between about 1550 and 1700.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Mercator.html (83 words)

	No. 889: The First Atlas
		Mercator, born in 1512, was older by 15 years.
		Mercator, G., Gerard Mercator's Map of the world (1569) in the form of an atlas in the Maritiem Museum "Prins Hendrik" at Rotterdam; reproduced on the scale of the original and issued by the Maritiem Museum "Prins Hendrik" and the editors of Image mundi, Rotterdam: 1961.
		Mercator, G., Historia mundi : or, Mercator's atlas ; containing his Cosmographical description of the fabricke and figure of the world.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi889.htm (687 words)

	Mercator Terrestrial Floor Globe - Reproduction Globe
		Mercator had a long term plan of producing a world map by producing individual maps of the different regions.
		Mercator realised the reason for some of the incorrect data; sailors assumed that following a particular compass course would have them travel in a straight line whereas this was untrue.
		Mercator's house was searched and his belongings confiscated but nothing incriminating was found to show that he was anything other than a good Roman Catholic.
	www.1worldglobes.com /1WorldGlobes/GLAM/glam002w.htm (2532 words)

	MERCATOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Gerhard Kremer, or Gerardus Mercator was the leading mapmaker of the 15th Century.
		Gerardus Mercator was born March 5, 1518, in Dumpelunde, Flanders (Belgium).
		Mercator was also very good at making an accurate map of Western Europe.
	www.yesnet.yk.ca /schools/projects/renaissance/mercator.html (231 words)

	Mercator Map of the North (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mercator's Atlas was not the first publication of a systematic collection of modern maps.
		Mercator was born Gerhard Kremer, the son of a poor cobbler in Rupelmonde, Flanders, (now Belgium, near Antwerp) in 1512, then lived with a rich uncle in the small town of Gangelt.
		Mercator was a victim of the Inquisition, accused of heresy against the Catholic church in 1544, probably in part for his Protestant beliefs, as well as what was thought to be suspicious activity from wide travels in search of data for his maps.
	www.ourhollowearth.com /mercatormapofthenorth.html (1753 words)

	Mercator's Projection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Mercator projection was invented by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish mapmaker.
		The property of the Mercator projection map that made it useful to navigators is that it preserves angles.
		Mercator knew that to give his map this desirable property, he had to make the lines of latitude farther apart as you go away from the equator.
	www.math.ubc.ca /~israel/m103/mercator/mercator.html (785 words)

	Map Projections: Navigators and Radio Operators
		Mercator probably defined the graticule by geometric construction; E.Wright formally presented equations in 1599.
		The blue strip is zone 13 of the UTM grid; it is part of a cylindrical slice, approximating a spherical lune 6° wide at the equator and clipped by the 84°N and 80°S parallels.
		Each zone is separately projected using the ellipsoidal form of the transverse Mercator projection with a secant case: scale of the central meridian is reduced by 0.04%, so two lines about 1°37" east and west of it have true scale.
	www.progonos.com /furuti/MapProj/Normal/ProjNav/projNav.html#Mercator (1064 words)

	Gerard Mercator biography -- Mercator's Resume by Mark Monmonier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mercator’s first biographer was Walter Ghim, his neighbor in Duisburg, the small German city where he lived from 1552 until his death in 1594.
		Mercator’s next publication was a detailed 34 by 46 inch (87 by 117 cm) map of Flanders, printed as four sheets in 1540.
		For example, Mercator’s famous 1569 world map, discussed in greater detail in the next chapter, was at least partly encouraged by his appointment to teach mathematics, as a part-time volunteer, in the gymnasium (high school) established by Duisburg’s city council in 1559.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/534316.html (3596 words)

	T fol 179 dl 1 Rar
		Gerardus Mercator, Jodocus Hondius, Nieuwen atlas, ofte werelt-beschrijvinge, vertonende de voornaemste rijcken ende landen des gheheelen aerdt-bodems.
		The Fleming Gerard Mercator (1512-1594) is rightfully regarded as the most important scientific cartographer of the Renaissance.
		Mercator established his reputation mainly through his new projection method.
	vitrine.library.uu.nl /wwwroot/en/texts/Tfol179rar.htm (840 words)

	Mercator_Gerardus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		After graduating, Mercator began to have worries on how to reconcile the account of the origin of the universe given in the Bible with that given by Aristotle.
		Mercator produced a map of Palestine (1537), a map of the world with a new projection (1538) and a map of Flanders (1540).
		Mercator's break from the methods of Ptolemy was as important for geography as was Copernicus for astronomy.
	www-cassini.univ-mrs.fr /divers/Mercator_Gerardus.html (449 words)

	Navis.gr - Mercator, Gerardus
		Such maps are named after Gerardus Mercator, the foremost geographer of the 16th century.
		Mercator was born on March 5, 1512, in Rupelmonde, Flanders (now in Belgium).
		Mercator's dream was to publish a volume of maps, which would also give a history of the world since creation.
	www.navis.gr /men/mercator.htm (293 words)

	JavaScript Navigator - Meridional Parts
		The first Mercator chart (the ordinary maps and charts used nowadays) was published by the Flemish cartographer, Gerardus Mercator in 1569.
		With this table, the Mercator sailing was developed and it provides a mathematical solution of the plot as made on a Mercator chart by using difference in meridional parts and longitude differences.
		This new distance unit is named as meridional part which is the increased length of the meridian on a Mercator chart measured from the equator to the parallel (latitude) and is expressed in minutes of the longitude scale.
	www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/2265/mp.htm (337 words)

	Gerardus Mercator, Arno Peters, Map Projections, South Up Globe
		Mastery of the seas has played a critical role in global affairs ever since and one side-effect is that the Mercator map has become the defacto standard 'map of the world' in nearly every classroom around the world.
		In a world where might is right and bigger is better, it can and has been argued that the Mercator projection has the psychological impact of demeaning people who are already downtrodden, while enhancing a position of superiority for the first world nations.
		He challenged the dominance of the Mercator projection with the charge that the popularity of the Mercator view stems largely from the fact that it exaggerates the sizes of white-dominated regions and thus reflects a racist attitude.
	www.pinnaclefarms.ca /ORIANAsite/DownsideUp/DownsideUp.html (1177 words)

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