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Categories: University of Leuven alumni, 1594 deaths, 16th-century inventors, 16th-century engravers, Early modern Netherlandish cartography
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Mercator  Gerardus Mercator  Gerhard Kremer  Gherardo Mercatore  Atlas Cosmographicae
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Flemish geographer who lived in Germany; he invented the Mercator projection of maps of the globe (1512-1594) WordNet 3.0
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Flemish geographer who lived in Germany; he invented the Mercator projection of maps of the globe (1512-1594) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Gerardus Mercator was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer. Wikipedia
A 16th-century cartographer Wikipedia Disambiguation
IS A
geographer
homo
CHILD
Rumold Mercator
Arnold Mercator
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
AuronPlay
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
Sytin Military Encyclopedia
Obalky knih.cz
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
Gemma Frisius
EDUCATED AT
Old University of Leuven
Université catholique de Louvain
EMPLOYER
Universities in Leuven
FIELD OF WORK
mapmaking
geography
GIVEN NAME
Gerhard
HAS WORKS IN THE COLLECTION
Moravian Gallery in Brno
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Basel Historical Museum
FR
Graphische Sammlung der Stadt Augsbourg
Stadsarchief Rotterdam
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
Dutch
Latin
OCCUPATION
geographer
mathematician
philosopher
instrument maker
professeur des universités
+2 relations
PLACE OF BIRTH
Rupelmonde
PLACE OF BURIAL
Church of Our Saviour
PLACE OF DEATH
Duisburg
PLACE OF DETENTION
Rupelmonde
SEX OR GENDER
male
STUDENT
John Dee
STUDENT OF
Macropedius
WORK LOCATION
Duisburg
Leuven
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Mercator, Gerardus Mercator, Gerhard Kremer
Wikipedia
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Gerardus Mercator
Wikidata
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Gerardus Mercator
Wikipedia Redirections
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Atlas Cosmographicae, Geradus Mercator, Gerard de Cremer, Gerard de Cremere, Gerard de Kremer, Gerard Mercator, Gerard of Kremer, Gerhard Kramer, Gerhard Kremer, Gerhard Mercator, Gerhardt Mercator, Gerhardus Mercator, Gheert Cremer, Mercator, Gerardus, Mercatorian
Wikidata Alias
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Gerard Mercator, Gerard Merkator, Gerardus Cremers, Gerardus Mercator, Gerhard Kremer, Gerhard Mercator, Gherardo Mercatore, Gherardo mercatore, Gérard de Cremer, Mercat.e, Mercator, Mercatore

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