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Gerardus (de Kremer) Mercator is Notable.
Gerardus Mercator was a 16th-century pioneer of cartography. He is most renowned for a 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented courses of constant bearing as straight lines.
Gerardus Mercator was born in Rupelmonde (county of Flanders) on March 5, 1512 during a visit of his parents, Hubert Kremer and Emerentiana, to his father's uncle Gisbert Kremer.
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His parents were residents of Gangelt, a village in the duchy of Gulik.[2][3] They returned there, but about 6 years later they settled permanently in Rupelmonde.[3]
Belgii inferioris descriptio emendata cum circumiacentium regionum confinijs, made by Mercator 1606[4]
Gerard married Barbara Schellekens in Leuven, probably on August 3, 1536. Six children were born there, sons Arnold, Bartholomaeus and Rumold, and daughters Emerentia, Dorothea, en Catherine.
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Many original maps, instruments and the two globes of Mercator are saved and exhibited in "Die Mercator-Schatzkammer" in the Kultur- und Stadthistorisches Museum Duisburg in Germany. [5]
Sources
↑Biography by Walter Ghim, friend of Mercator (1595): Walter Ghim, Vita Mercatoris; preface to Gerardus Mercator, Atlas sive Cosmographicæ Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura (1595); translated by David Sullivan, Atlas or Cosmographic Meditations on The Fabric of the World and The Figure of the Fabrick’d.; accessed on 2019-12-31 by Filip Beunis on WayBack Machine (https://web.archive.org/web/20160310032427/http://mail.nysoclib.org/mercator_atlas/mcrats.pdf).
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