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	Gerardus Mercator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mercator was born Gerard de Cremere (or Kremer) in the Flemish town of Rupelmonde.
		Mercator was convicted of heresy in 1544 because of his wide travels and Protestant faith and; he spent seven months in prison.
		Mercator moulded globes of papier-mâché on a wooden mould, then cut them along the equator; once reassembled, the globes were applied with gesso, a white mixture of thin plaster and sizing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gerardus_Mercator (623 words)

	Mercator projection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection devised by Gerardus Mercator in 1569.
		The Mercator projection exaggerates the size (and to a lesser extent, the shape) of areas far from the equator.
		Although the Mercator projection is still in common use for navigation, critics argue that it is not suited to representing the entire world in publications and wall maps due to its distortion of land area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mercator_projection (747 words)

	MSN Encarta - Mercator
		Mercator and his family moved to Duisburg, Germany, in 1552 to escape religious persecution for their Protestant beliefs.
		Mercator’s famous map of the world, drawn on the projection that carries his name, was published in Duisburg in 1569.
		Mercator was the first to use the word “atlas” for a group of maps.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761574639 (314 words)

	GERARDUS MERCATOR - LoveToKnow Article on GERARDUS MERCATOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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)

	What is a Mercator Projection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A Mercator projection is a mathematical method of showing a map of the globe on a flat surface.
		In a Mercator projection, the lines of longitude are straight vertical lines equal distance apart at all latitudes, and horizontal distances are stretched above and below the equator this stretching is exaggerated near the poles.
		The Mercator projection mathematically stretches vertically distances by the same proportion as the horizontal distances so that shape and direction are preserved.
	science.nasa.gov /Realtime/rocket_sci/orbmech/mercator.html (195 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 (395 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)

	Wilderness Camping 'How To' Section, Mapping, UTM Acronym Origin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A Mercator map projection is one developed by Gerhard Kremer, a Flemish cartographer who lived and worked in Germany the last half of his life.
		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.paddles.com /users/wildcamp/utmnym.html (1455 words)

	Mercator_Gerardus
		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 published corrected and updated versions of Ptolemy's maps in 1578 as the first part of his 'atlas'.
		Mercator's break from the methods of Ptolemy was as important for geography as was Copernicus for astronomy.
	www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Mercator_Gerardus.html (2569 words)

	Mercator, Gerardus on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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.
		Gerardus Mercator (1512-94): known as the prince of modern geographers, Mercator was the first to use the term `atlas' and was the cream of the cartographic crop in an age of geographical discovery.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/m/mercatg1.asp (525 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)

	Gerard Mercator biography -- Mercator's Resume by Mark Monmonier
		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.
		From Averdunk and Müller-Reinhard, "Gerard Mercator," pl. 18.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/534316.html (3596 words)

	Mercator
		Mercator reasoned that since the meridians approached one another as one approached the poles, while the distance between them was represented by a constant distance on the map, the perpendicular distance should increase proportionally, to make the scales equal in all directions.
		Mercator had no calculus, as we have, to work out the projection exactly, but he could measure the distances between meridians on his globe and draw his map accordingly, using what we would now call numerical integration.
		The Mercator map is a conformal map with the scale decreasing toward the poles.
	www.du.edu /~jcalvert/math/mercator.htm (3839 words)

	Mercator_Nicolaus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Probably in the same year Mercator published a text De emendatione annua diatribae duae in which he argues for a new version of the calendar in which there are 12 months with 29, 29, 30, 30, 31, 31, 32, 31, 31, 31, 30, 30 days respectively.
		Mercator invented such a marine chronometer, a pendulum clock, and on the strength of this invention he was elected a Fellow of the
		One might have thought that Mercator's reputation was sufficient that he would have been able to acquire a good post but it seems that he could not.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Mercator_Nicolaus.html (955 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - Mercator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mercator was built as a sail-training ship for the Belgian government—which at the same time canceled the subsidies for L'Avenir, forcing the sale of that ship to Hamburg-Amerika Linie.
		On her four-day maiden voyage from Leith to Ostend, Mercator limped into the harbor with sagging rigging and down by the head as a result of flooding of a forward compartment.
		She had originally been rigged as a topsail schooner, carrying a fore course, single topsail, and single topgallant, as well as a fore-and-aft foresail, but she emerged from repairs at a French yard rigged as a barkentine, shorn of her foresail, and given double topsails and topgallants.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_060700_mercator.htm (268 words)

	Mercator's Projection
		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.
		In order for Mercator's projection to work, this has to be true for its image on the map as well: so its image on Mercator's map must be a square.
	www.math.ubc.ca /~israel/m103/mercator/mercator.html (785 words)

	Mercator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mercator provides access to X Windows applications for people who are blind by transforming the graphical interface into an interactive auditory interface.
		Mercator interfaces are made up of auditory interface components which are related to graphical interface components such as menus, buttons, dialog boxes and so on.
		The Mercator project is a joint effort by the Georgia Tech Multimedia Computing Group (a part of the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center) and the Center for Rehabilitation Technology.
	www.cc.gatech.edu /gvu/multimedia/Mercator.html (1797 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)

	www.mineweb.net \| co_releases Mercator Gold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mercator Gold plc (“AIM-MCR; MCRW”), which joined AIM on 8 October 2004, has a joint venture agreement with St Barbara Mines Limited (“the Annean Joint Venture”) to explore for economic gold resources in the Annean Joint Venture area in the Meekatharra region of Western Australia.
		Mercator will assess the geology, structure, alteration and gold distribution to see if a super pit style of operation is realistic, and it will examine potential for extensions of orebodies in depth.
		Mercator is targeting the under-explored northern extension of this alteration zone.
	www.mineweb.net /co_releases/467574.htm (1067 words)

	MERCATOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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)

	Amazon.com: Mercator: Books: Nicholas Crane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mercator was born as Gerard Kremer to poor parents (his father was a cobbler) in Flanders in 1512.
		Mercator lived in a tumultuous time, and his moderate views, shared with the humanists, about such things as faith in Christ being more important than ritualistic ceremony, were considered heretical by others.
		Mercator's methods of mapmaking were major breakthroughs in layout but it is hard to understand why that was the case, considering that we have maps everywhere today, even on demand in our cars.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0297646656?v=glance (2244 words)

	Mercator of London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mercator is a jewellery workshop dedicated to designing and crafting work of uncompromising quality.
		Mercator manufacture bespoke cufflinks and necklaces in solid sterling silver and in 18ct gold.
		Mercator was formed in 1995 as a jewellery workshop, dedicated to designing and crafting work of uncompromising quality.
	www.zyra.org.uk /mercator.htm (343 words)

	MERCATOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mercator is a network of three research and documentation centres dealing with the regional and minority languages which are spoken by more than forty million citizens of the European Union.
		It was set up following the Kuijpers Resolution in the European Parliament and has developed in parallel with subsequent EU and Council of Europe policies for the protection of minorities, equal citizenship, the promotion of linguistic diversity, and access to the information society.
		The Mercator centres also work closely with the European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages, the representative organization of the European inguistic minorities, for whom they provide in-depth specialist back-up.
	www.mercator-central.org (237 words)

	Mercator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In order to do this, Mercator invented a projection which preserved length, by projecting the earth's surface onto a cylinder, sharing the same axis as the earth itself.
		Many countries and US states use Transverse Mercator for their grid systems, especially countries such as New Zealand, which are long N/S and narrow E/W. There are some coordinates that use a State Plane Coordinate System.
		The Transverse Mercator projection is used, with the cylinder in 60 positions.
	www.vterrain.org /Projections/UTM.html (534 words)

	Mercator announces listing date on the Toronto Stock Exchange
		Concurrent with its move to the TSX, Mercator's shares will be de-listed from the TSX Venture Exchange, and all of the remaining shares currently subject to the TSX Venture Exchange escrow agreement dated June 24, 2003 will be released from escrow.
		Mercator is currently completing the first of a three phase expansion of its SX/EW copper production at Mineral Park that could see cathode copper production steadily increase from its current annualized rate of 7 million pounds of copper per year to 30 million pounds per year within two years.
		In parallel with this expansion, Mercator is conducting a feasibility study to evaluate the economics of resuming production of copper and molybdenum concentrates from the substantial resources at Mineral Park.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-19-2005/0004091186&EDATE= (388 words)

	Mercator (1SP) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A more common formulation for Mercator is to drop the +k_0, and instead to provide a latitude of true scale using the +lat_ts parameter, which is the latitude at which the scale is 0.
		The Mercator projection is a special case of the Lambert Conic Conformal projection with the equator as the single standard parallel.
		In the few cases in which the Mercator projection is used for terrestrial applications or land mapping, such as in Indonesia prior to the introduction of the Universal Transverse Mercator, a scale factor may be applied to the projection.
	www.remotesensing.org /geotiff/proj_list/mercator_1sp.html (359 words)

	Mercator Projections
		The Mercator projection is one of the oldest, most influential, and most misunderstood projections of all time.
		Mercator (whose birth name was Gerhard Kramer; in his day, if you wanted to present yourself as an educated person, you latinized your name; hence Gerhard Kramer became Gerardus Mercator) was born in Rupelmonde, Germany on March 5, 1512 and died in Duisburg, Germany on December 2, 1594.
		Prior to Mercator's 1585 publication of an atlas covering just about all of the known world (indeed, it was with this work that Mercator coined the word atlas to describe a collection of maps; the word did not exist prior to that time), ocean navigation was largely hit-or-miss.
	www.cnr.colostate.edu /class_info/nr502/lg2/projection_descriptions/mercator.html (656 words)

	Mercator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mercator which is currently in an alpha state is a program intended to help you create what are often described as "mindmaps".
		The present version of Mercator is written in tcl/tk which will come as no surprise to people who know me. So in order to run the prototype you will need tcl/tk version 8.0.4 for your platform.
		I do not preclude producing versions of mercator in other languages in the future should this be necessary.
	catless.ncl.ac.uk /Programs/Mercator (271 words)

	Mercator Ocean - Route du Rhum 2002
		For the Route du Rhum 2002 race, MERCATOR OCEAN oceanographers developed an entirely new version of their bulletin giving both an ocean forecast and a daily analysis of marine currents encountered by competitors during the race.
		The sailors will now be able to take advantage for the first time of a tool developed by MERCATOR Ocean in January 2001: the ocean forecast bulletin, which gives a real-time description of the north Atlantic and Tropical ocean to up to 2 weeks ahead.
		On 20 April 2002, MERCATOR readied itself to set sail when the six founding partner organizations took the project one step further and set up a French public interest grouping called Mercator Ocean, the seventh organization of its kind devoted to operational oceanography.
	www.mercator-ocean.fr /html/produits/applications/mercatorhum2002/index_en.html (515 words)

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