Gerhard Mercator

Standard Name: Mercator, Gerhard

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Textual Features Jane Squire
JS begins her account by giving the longitude of Bethlehemat the Time our Lord Jesus Christ vouchsafed there to be born for us.
Squire, Jane. A Proposal for Discovering Our Longitude. Printed for the author, and sold by P. Vaillant and F. Needham, 1742.
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Gerhard Mercator , the famous sixteenth-century cartographer, had also chosen...

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1560: Gerhard Mercator published his famous map...

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1560

Gerhard Mercator published his famous map of the world (the Mercator Projection, which at the price of some inaccuracy of scale, depicts the spherical globe as a flat surface).
Cameron, Jennifer. A Dangerous Innovator: Mary Ward (1585-1645). St Pauls Publications, 2000.
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1570: The engraver Abraham Ortelius published the...

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1570

The engraver Abraham Ortelius published the first world atlas based on scientific measurements, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; Gerhard Mercator followed with his Atlas, 1585-1595, which gave the genre its current name.
Monmonier, Mark. “Measurements that made the world”. Guardian Weekly, Vol.
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, No. 13, 20–26 Mar. 2003, p. 30.
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