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Gerardus Mercator (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ r ɑːr d ə s m ɜːr ˈ k eɪ t ər /; [a] [b] [c] 5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) [d] was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer. He is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing ( rhumb lines ) as straight lines ...
Gerardus Mercator was a Flemish cartographer whose most important innovation was a map, embodying what was later known as the Mercator projection, on which parallels and meridians are rendered as straight lines spaced so as to produce at any point an accurate ratio of latitude to longitude.
Oct 19, 2023 · If you have ever seen a map of the world in a classroom or in an atlas, chances are you have seen the work of Gerardus Mercator, a 16th-century Flemish cartographer (mapmaker). His most famous work, the Mercator projection , is a geographical chart where the spherical globe is flattened into a two-dimensional map, with latitude and longitude ...
Jun 11, 2018 · Mercator, Gerardus (1512–94) Flemish cartographer. His huge world map of 1569 employed the system of projection now named after him, in which lines of longitude, as well as latitude, appear as straight, parallel lines.
Gerardus Mercator. (1512—1594) Flemish geographer and cartographer. Quick Reference. (1512–1594) Dutch cartographer and geographer. Mercator, originally named Kremer, was born at Rupelmonde, now in Belgium. At the University of Louvain (1530–32) he was a pupil of Gemma Frisius.
Gerardus Mercator, orig. Gerard Kremer, (born March 5, 1512, Rupelmonde, Flanders—died Dec. 2, 1594, Duisburg, Duchy of Cleve), Flemish cartographer. He received a master’s degree in 1532 from the University of Louvain (Belgium), where he settled.
The word "atlas" to define a collection of maps was coined by Gerardus Mercator, who is best known for his 1569 invention of a new system of projection for marine charts, called the Mercator projection, which revolutionized cartography as well as nautical navigation.
