Gerardus Mercator (/dʒɪˈrɑːrdəs mɜːrˈkeɪtər/; 5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer. He is most renowned...
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University of Duisburg (redirect from Gerhard Mercator University)
Comprehensive University of Duisburg was given the name of Gerhard Mercator in 1994. In 2003, the Gerhard Mercator University merged with the University of Essen...
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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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founded in 1654 and re-established on 1 January 2003, as a merger of the Gerhard Mercator University of Duisburg and the university of Essen. It is based in...
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Die Welt des Gerhard Mercator. Mercator-Verlag. p. 86. ISBN 9783874633932. Retrieved 29 December 2021. Crane, Nicholas (2014). Mercator: The Man Who Mapped...
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149194; 68.519500 Shown about four degrees of longitude due east of Perm. Mercator is also mistaken about hydrology, placing Perm in the Ob basin and depicting...
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Foullon 1513–1563 or 1565 (France) Pedro Nunes 1502–1578 (Portugal) Gerhard Mercator 1512–1594 (Belgium/Germany) Snellius (Willebrord Snel van Royen) 1580–1626...
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son of cartographer Gerardus Mercator and a brother of Rumold Mercator. Arnold was the eldest child of Gerardus Mercator and Barbara Schellekens from...
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Gymnasium Duisburg. One of the teachers is Gerhard Mercator, who gives instruction in mathematics. 1566 – One of Mercator's pupils, Johannes Corputius, captured...
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ISBN 978-0-226-13914-2. Gerhard Holzer; Valerie Newby; Petra Svatek (2015). A World of Innovation: Cartography in the Time of Gerhard Mercator. Cambridge Scholars...
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Stadtplan des Johannes Corputius von 1566, Multimedia-CD-Rom, ed.: Gerhard-Mercator-Gesellschaft e.V., Duisburg 2002 Duisburg im Jahre 1566: der Stadtplan...
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derived from the Latin word mercator, meaning 'trader', 'merchant', but also refers to the important cartographer Gerhard Mercator. Originally part of a temporary...
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Valerie Newby, Petra Svatek, Gerhard Holzer (27 February 2015). A World of Innovation: Cartography in the Time of Gerhard Mercator. Cambridge Scholars. p. 139...
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Karten von Deutschland bis Gerhard Mercator. Leipzig 1940. 2˚. 22 Taf. „Die ältesten Karten Deutschlands bis Gerhard Mercator und ihre Bedeutung für die...
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Münster (ca. 1550). Helvetia cum finitimis regionibus confoederatis by Gerhard Mercator (1585) Die Eydgnoschafft mit dero Grentzen by Hans Conrad Gyger (1588)...
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of Theodor Fontane. 5 DM, silver, 1969. 375th death anniversary of Gerhard Mercator. 5 DM, silver, 1969. 200th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven. 5 DM,...
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a series of 4 C-Tests (a cloze procedure developed in the 1980s at Gerhard-Mercator-Universität Duisburg in Germany - based on theories of language redundancy...
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Internationales Kolloquium der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft und der Gerhard-Mercator-Universität Duisburg, Xanten 1997 (in German). Berlin: Erich Schmidt...
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manuscripts and 3,000 historic maps and atlases including sheets of Gerhard Mercator (1571) and Abraham Ortelius (1621). A handwritten codex from the 11th...
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Sciences) in 1989. Having successfully graduated in Social Sciences at Gerhard-Mercator-University of Duisburg, he completed his PhD on the role of sociology...
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opening of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Mercator House in Duisburg: home of the cartographer Gerhard Mercator (1512–1594), destroyed in World War II,...
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several instruments and corresponded with Galileo Galilei (from 1588), Gerhard Mercator, Godefroy Wendelin, Ludolph van Ceulen and Fabrizio Mordente, whom...
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Weliki Tumen (the Great Tyumen) is shown on Gerhard Mercator's map of Asia (published in 1595) as located south of Perm and Sibier...
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Silesia, Lausitz and Saxony in the 17th century, map from Gerhard Mercator and Henricus Hondius...
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Department of Natural Science Informatics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan Gerhard Mercator Universität Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany Joint Institute of Nuclear...
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are remarkable in its opinion. With the award of the Mercator Medal named after Gerhard Mercator, the DGfK honors personalities who have rendered extraordinary...
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of Moscovia published in 1549, and on a number of later maps, e.g. Gerhard Mercator's "Map of the Arctic (1595)", where it is labeled Zolotaia Baba (from...
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1992 he was appointed professor in Chinese economic studies at the Gerhard Mercator University of Duisburg, Germany. Between 1996 and 2008 he was chair...
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world map in eight Reuleaux triangle octants (1503) Title page of Gerhard Mercator's atlas (1595), associating such volumes of maps with the Greek mythological...
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(1988); Institute of Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University (1998); Gerhard Mercator University of Duisburg. Germany (1998); and the Centre for Ships and...
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