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	The Rupelmonde sundial trail in Flanders
		Rupelmonde is a Flemish village situated on the left bank of the Schelderiver, opposite the mouth of the Rupel.
		At this confluence, where the effluent water of Flanders mixes with those of Brabant and Limburg is mixed, Gerardus Mercator was born on the 12th of March, 1512.
		Rupelmonde once was a Roman settlement, later on it became a medieval town and now, after the municipal mergers, it is part of the city of Kruibeke.
	www.sundials.co.uk /~rupelmonde.htm (176 words)

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		Rupelmonde is just a tiny little village on the banks of the river Schelde but it was very important in the history of Flanders.
		The castle was destroyed in 1678 during a furious battle between the Spaniards and the united provinces of France.
		The castle was never rebuilt but they used a lot of material they found in the ruin of the castle to build other landmarks like the church of Rupelmonde.
	members.lycos.co.uk /enchantingcastles/page3.html (1430 words)

	Rupelmonde -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Rupelmonde is a constituent town of the municipality of (Click link for more info and facts about Kruibeke) Kruibeke, located in the (A native or inhabitant of Belgium) Belgian province of (Click link for more info and facts about East Flanders) East Flanders.
		It sits on the bank of the river (A river that rises in France and flows northeast across Belgium and empties into the North Sea) Scheldt and is famed for its (Timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial) sundials.
		It is also the birthplace of (Flemish geographer who lived in Germany; he invented the Mercator projection of maps of the globe (1512-1594)) Gerardus Mercator, a famous (One of two official languages of Belgium; closely related to Dutch) Flemish (A person who makes maps) cartographer.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/R/Ru/Rupelmonde.htm (137 words)

	Crayon Papers , The
		The Canoness De Rupelmonde conducted her niece to her praying-desk, where, as soon as the poor girl knelt down, she sank as if exhausted.
		It was noticed that in one of his hands, which was covered with a violet glove, he grasped firmly a pair of tablets, of enameled gold.
		The Canoness de Rupelmonde conducted her niece to the prelate, to make her profession of self-devotion, and to utter the irrevocable vow.
	manybooks.net /pages/irvingwaetext058cryp10/128.html (320 words)

	Archiprix International 2001: Inbreiding Rupelmonde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A future vision for Rupelmonde is generated out of the Flanders Environmental Structure Plan.
		Primarily this plan anticipates in the further development of the large cities (Antwerp, Brussels, Gent, etc.) while the suburbs, such as Rupelmonde, have to guard or even intensify the explicit qualities of their landscape.
		Starting from this and other guidelines of the Structure Plan, the conclusion for Rupelmonde was that a village of that scale, situated in a unique Polder landscape, does not need further extension and that the centre is only eligible for further development.
	www.archiprix.org /project.php?PKY_PARTICIPANTOID=1056 (357 words)

	Books \| Projectile mapping
		The first half of Mercator's long life (1512-94) was spent chiefly in Rupelmonde, a Flemish trading town at the junction of the Rupel and Schelde rivers.
		The town's riparian location meant that, like Joseph Conrad's Marlowe, Mercator's geographical imagination was nourished by the ships which passed to and from the rest of the world, and by the exotic stories and objects which found their way to the Rupelmonde wharves.
		It was in Rupelmonde that Mercator honed his talents as an instrument-maker and a mathematician: it was there, too, that he first considered the possibility of mapping the world, region by region.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4446497-99942,00.html (732 words)

	Catalogue Loeb-Larocque, cartes géographiques anciennes, ventes aux enchères, expertise, auction, antique maps, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathematician.
		The excellence of his work brought him the patronage of Charles V, but in spite of his favor with the Emperor he was caught up in the persecution of Lutheran protestants and charged with heresy, fortunately without serious consequences.
		¤ A map of the north-western part of England, including the Island of Man. Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathematician.
	www.loeb-larocque.com /mapshop/23.html (1142 words)

	The Systematic Position of Two Oligocene Birds from Belgium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The locality is not precisely stated, but Rupelmonde in East Flanders is inferred, and this is accepted by Dollo (1909: 113).
		This was based on the figured and poorly described distal portion of a left humerus from Rupelmonde (now designated as lectotype), and on a second specimen from Edeghem, the latter undescribed and unfigured.
		The shape of the ectepicondylar process, the straight shaft, and the strongly rotated distal end agree with the condition in the shearwaters of the genus Pu]finus and are quite different from the conformation in the Laridae.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v079n04/p0706-p0707.html (909 words)

	Mercator_Gerardus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It was in the hospice of St Johann in Rupelmonde, where Gisbert was a priest, that Gerard was born.
		Gisbert's influence meant that it was natural for Gerard and his brothers to aim at a career in the Church and indeed that was the route that his two eldest brothers took.
		Conditions in Rupelmonde began to deteriorate in the early 1520s, however, with huge increases in taxes to fund the war between the Habsburgs and France.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Mercator_Gerardus.html (2478 words)

	Gerhardus Mercator Biography / Biography of Gerhardus Mercator Biography Biography
		It also signaled the late Renaissance convergence of academic cartography with the practical needs of navigators, an important step in the creation of that dynamic unity between science and technology that is one of the signal characteristics of the modern world.
		Mercator was born Gerhard Kremer in Rupelmonde, Flanders, on March 5, 1512.
		His relation to the new geographical knowledge is examined in the appropriate chapters of Boies Penrose, Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance, 1420-1620 (1952), and John Horace Parry, The Age of Reconnaissance (1963).
	www.bookrags.com /biography-gerhardus-mercator (675 words)

	Cycling Belgium's Waterways: Sea Schelde
		While much of the route is through farmland and nature preserve, much of it is also either unpaved or on bike lanes on fairly busy roads.
		At the edge of Rupelmonde you reach a road, first by a few houses and then a former boatyard.
		In front of you is the Rupelmonde tower, followed in quick order by the tourist office in the tidal mill and then the embankment.
	www.gamber.net /cyclebel/sea_sch1.htm (3899 words)

	Gerardus Mercator
		Regarding his importance for the history of cartography, he is compared to Ptolemy, the ancient scholar from Alexandria in Egypt.
		Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and had studied geography, cartography and mathematics at the University of Leuven (Louvain) in Belgium.
		He published his first map in 1537 at the age of 25 - a map of Palestine.
	www.artelino.com /articles/gerardus_mercator.asp (376 words)

	Mathematician born in Rupelmonde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Click on a place on the map to see the mathematician(s) born there.
		The markers on the left point to Rupelmonde.
		Click HERE to see a map with the names of all the places marked.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/BirthplaceMaps/Rupelmonde.html (64 words)

	M 906 Breydel
		The little village of Kruibeke in village Rupelmonde is believed to have become the owner of the Breydel because the previous owner(s) defaulted on their required duties.
		The Breydel is currently “moored” at Rupelmonde, near Antwerp on the river Schelde.
		Picture taken at mid August 1998 when she was nearly ready to put back in to the water.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Bunker/2170/m906museum.html (315 words)

	The Life of Gerard Mercator
		Mercator, the man best known for creating the Mercator Projection, was born in Rupelmonde, Flanders, on March 5, 1512.
		In his 80 years of living, he fundamentally changed the way people looked at maps and at the world.
		Their first child, Arnold, was born the following year.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/geography/gerardmercator1.htm (227 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Julianus De Souter was born in Rupelmonde Belgium on 23 November 1829 to Joannes Josephus De Souter and Juliana De Witte.
		He drowned in Rupelmonde on 8 November 1910.
		It has been told that when my Grandfather stepped off of the ship he was working on he crossed the street and joined the United States Navy.
	members.aol.com /mabeena/life1 (145 words)

	Gerard Mercator biography -- Mercator's Resume by Mark Monmonier
		A reasonable compromise, I’m sure, as an obsessive purist would need to write awkwardly about Gerardus Mercator Rupelmundanus (Gerard Mercator of Rupelmonde), the name under which Mercator enrolled at the University of Louvain in 1530 and published his epic world atlas.
		At Louvain Mercator studied humanities and philosophy, attended lectures by the brilliant mathematician and astronomer Gemma Frisius (1508-55), and received a master’s degree in 1532.
		Although prosperous and comparatively erudite, sixteenth-century Flanders was frequently engulfed in conflict between Protestant reformers and Catholic traditionalists, who in 1544 began a brutal effort to suppress Protestantism.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/534316.html (3596 words)

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		His uncle, Gijsbrecht de Cremer is a priest of the Sint-Jans-Godshuis (the Saint-John’s house of God) in Rupelmonde and teaches him his first Latin.
		One of them is Mercator and he is imprisoned in the castle of Rupelmonde.
		Since there is no incriminating evidence found against him and because of the intervention of several important citizens from Leuven, he is released in October.
	www.phys.uu.nl /~vdaalst/Portfolio/Documenten/Geschiedenis/mercatoruk15.doc (2112 words)

	Mercator Map of the North
		The Latin name for a merchant was Mercator, and the word was commonly used for the travelling book merchants of Germany and the lowlands.
		When Kremer followed the fashion of educated German men of his period to Latinize his name, he chose Gerardus Mercator de Rupelmonde.
		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.
	www.ourhollowearth.com /mercatormapofthenorth.html (1753 words)

	MERCATOR
		Gerard Mercator was born as Gerard de Cremer on March 5th in 1512 in Rupelmonde, which is located close to Antwerp and Sint-Niklaas in the northern part of Belgium.
		At the age of 42, Gerard moved to Duisburg on the Rhine, where he made his most important cartographic works.
		The historically remarkable town of Rupelmonde is situated on the banks of the Scheldt.
	mathsforeurope.digibel.be /mercator.htm (2594 words)

	VirtualTourist.com - Rupelmonde Travel Guide - Pictures, Tips and Reviews
		Tips, Reviews and Photos plus Hotels, Restaurants, Activities and More in Rupelmonde
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		The Temse " Wilford " boat at Rupelmonde
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Belgium/Provincie_Oost_Vlaanderen/Rupelmonde-349121/TravelGuide-Rupelmonde.html (264 words)

	Photo: DSCN0140 \| Rupelmonde and Antwerp album \| Danielle \| Fotki.com
		A visit to Rupelmonde and eating out in Antwerp.
		Afterwards visiting places on the night of the open musea.
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	public.fotki.com /Irisbe/visitors/tom_engonnie/rupelmonde_and_antwerp/dscn0140.html (93 words)

	corresondance, vol 7 no4, décembre 2000, 15 nov 2000, page 11
		Dear André, In addition to the Sundial Park in Genk which Warren Thom mentioned already, I can recommend two more places worth visiting: The village of Rupelmonde (some 20 km north of Brussels, just south of Antwerp), which has plenty of sundials.
		Dear André, If you have time for travel visit Rupelmonde, near Antwerpen (Anvers) In this little town more then 25 sundials have been placed by the Belgium Sundial Society.
		The chairman of the Belgium Society, Julien Lyssens, is head of the Foreign Office of Rupelmonde.
	cadrans_solaires.scg.ulaval.ca /cadransolaire/p11v7no4.html (793 words)

	Cassini Terrestrial Globe
		Born: 5 March 1512 in Rupelmonde, Flanders (now Belgium) Died: 2 Dec 1594 in Duisburg, Duchy of Cleves (now Germany)
		This time Mercator and Van der Heyden appeared as more equal collaborators with Gemma Frisius with the globe claiming that is was made by :-
		Mercator produced his first map, which was one of Palestine, in 1537 :-
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /greavesandthomas/facsimile/globe_mercator.html (3642 words)

	what (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		An unusual modern sundial in the town square at Rupelmonde not far from the tidal powered grain mill.
		It was raining very heavily at the time so it was not possible to check it for accuracy.
		Send feedback suggestions and comments to Martin Brown
	www.nezumi.demon.co.uk /astro/sundial/sundial.htm (71 words)

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