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    cartes : Gérard Mercator (1512–1594) et le premier atlas du monde, Paris: Mercator Fonds, OCLC 798942258 Imhof, Dirk (2012), "Gerard Mercator and the Officina...
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    The Mercator world map of 1569 is titled Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendate Accommodata (Renaissance Latin for "New and...
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    reputation of the work of Gerard Mercator, and for his portraits of Francis Drake. He inherited and republished the plates of Mercator, thus reviving his legacy...
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  • of the Flemish geographer and mathematician Gérard Mercator. "Planetary Names: Rupes, rupēs: Rupes Mercator on Moon". planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov. Retrieved...
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    171. Gerard Mercator’s 1538 map of the world is reproduced in Antoine de Smet and J. van Raemdonck (eds.), Les Spheres Terrestre & Céleste de Gérard Mercator...
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    collaboration with the Observatory of the University of Geneva and named after Gerard Mercator, famous cartographer. The telescope was completed in the year 2000...
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    Broeke, Steven (2001). "Dee, Mercator, and Louvain Instrument Making: An Undescribed Astrological Disc by Gerard Mercator (1551)". Annals of Science. 58...
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  • Scandinavia was an island. Progress was made in the 16th century, and Gerard Mercator gave an accurate representation of all of Europe, including Scandinavia...
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    Map of Northern Russia, including Permia; by Gerard Mercator (Amsterdam, 1595)....
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    Java and "introduced in their maps a continent in that situation". Gerard Mercator did just that on his 1541 globe, placing Beach provincia aurifera ("Beach...
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    celestial atlas ever published. In the foreword to his Chronologica, Gerard Mercator stated the intention to publish an atlas which would cover everything...
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    the Persian Gulf. This coincided with the early mapmaking efforts of Gerard Mercator, whose 1541 terrestrial globe attempts to give the most up-to-date...
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  • Broeke, Steven (2001). "Dee, Mercator, and Louvain Instrument Making: An Undescribed Astrological Disc by Gerard Mercator (1551)". Annals of Science. 58...
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  • Julius Caesar, Claudius Ptolemy, and the atlas's first two publishers, Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius, the father of Hendrik. Among its claims to notability...
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    Perhaps the best-known projection is the Mercator Projection, originally designed as a nautical chart. Mercator projection (showing between 82°S and 82°N)...
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    from Henricus Martellus to Gerard Mercator, 1491-1569. The southern continent of the Dieppe cartographers, like Mercator’s southern continent with its...
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    Koeman's atlantes Neerlandici, Vol. 1: The folio atlases published by Gerard Mercator, Jodocus Hondius, Henricus Hondius, Johannes Janssonius and their successors...
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    with a collection of 16th- and 17th-century maps and engravings by Gerard Mercator, Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne, and others. Additionally, one room...
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    Vincenzo Coronelli (110 cm (43 in) diameter) and a pair of globes by Gerard Mercator from 1541 and 1551. Further objects in the collection include armillary...
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  • Horst, Thomas (2011), Le monde en cartes : Gérard Mercator (1512-1594) et le premier atlas du monde, Mercator Fonds, ISBN 9789061531579, OCLC 800735628...
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    XXIII (3e série, 3e volume), 1re partie, Paris, 1858, p. 72a, § 393. Gerard Mercator (1512–1594), Britannia et Normandia cum confinibus regionibus, Duisbourg...
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    meridian as closely as possible. In 2003 he published a biography of Gerard Mercator, the great Flemish cartographer. Together with Richard Crane, he was...
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    Norwegians). It appears with this name in sixteenth-century maps, including Gerard Mercator's Map of the Arctic published in his 1595 atlas. Its eastern corner...
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  • (1899–1978) novelist and poet (Mère). Haroun Tazieff, geologist. Gerard Mercator, (1512–1594) cartographer. Founder of modern cartography. Edith Cavell...
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  • but mistakenly: like almost everyone we have used the Italian). On Gerard Mercator's 1538 map of the world, Locat is situated in Indochina, south of Champa...
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  • Oronce Fine in his world map of 1531, and the Flemish cartographers Gerard Mercator in 1538 and Abraham Ortelius in 1570. Schöner's concepts influenced...
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    maps and globes The History of Cartography, Volume 3, The University of Chicago Press - PDF The Discovery of Gerard Mercator's Astrolabes, G.L'E. Turner...
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    feared that the residents had fallen into paganism. A letter from Gerard Mercator to John Dee in 1577 brings excerpts from a lost work by Jacobus Cnoyen...
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  • and sundials, whose designs reveal the influence of his uncle and Gerard Mercator (1512–1594). Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gualtierus Arsenius...
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    B. or a monogram. He also made the following prints: Portrait of Gerard Mercator, geographer. Portrait of Daniel Specklin. Four plates of the Elements;...
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