Gerardus Mercator
✶March 15, 1512
†December 2, 1594
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✶March 15, 1512
†December 2, 1594
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Gerardus Mercator was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer. He is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing as straight lines—an innovation that is still employed in nautical charts.
Flemish cartographer (1512–1594)
Biography from the article Gerardus Mercator on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.