Mercator, Gerardus |
Name | Name Pinyin | Name Type | Lang. | pref. Name |
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Mercator, Gerardus | Other Name, Variants, incl. Married Name (其他名,包括:字、婚後名) | German | preferred Name | |
麥卡托 | Maikatuo | Other Name, Variants, incl. Married Name (其他名,包括:字、婚後名) | Chinese | |
Kremer, Gerard de | Given Name (名) | French | ||
Krämer, Gerhard | Other Name, Variants, incl. Married Name (其他名,包括:字、婚後名) | German | ||
Mercator, Gerhard | Other Name, Variants, incl. Married Name (其他名,包括:字、婚後名) | German |
birth/start | death/end | gender/group | gender uncertain |
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1512-03-05 | 1594-12-02 | male | - |
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Gerardus Mercator was a 16th-century German-Flemish cartographer, geographer and cosmographer. He was renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing (rhumb lines) as straight lines—an innovation that is still employed in nautical charts. |
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