Mercator

[mer-key-ter; for 1 also Flemish mer-kah-tawr]

noun

Ger·har·dus

[jer-hahr-duh s] /dʒərˈhɑr dəs/, Gerhard Kremer, 1512–94, Flemish cartographer and geographer.

adjective

noting, pertaining to, or according to the principles of a Mercator projection: a Mercator chart.

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Examples from the Web for mercator

Contemporary Examples of mercator

The blog was recently optioned by Mercator Pictures for scripted television development.
Get Famous or Your Money Back
Jessie Rosen
June 18, 2009

Historical Examples of mercator

Just how this Mercator chart is constructed is explained in detail in the Arts.
Lectures in Navigation
Ernest Gallaudet Draper
If oblique, it is solved by middle latitude, or Mercator sailing.
The Sailor's Word-Book
William Henry Smyth
Mercator, the map-maker, was more of a success than Mercator, the historical chronicler.
Rambles in Brittany
Francis Miltoun
It has been stated that Mercator copied the work of Finaeus.
Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Vol I
Edward Luther Stevenson
Mercator and Hugo Grotius were also believers in the Zeni account.
The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West
Robert E. Anderson

British Dictionary definitions for mercator

Mercator

noun

Gerardus (dʒəˈrɑːdəs). Latinized name of Gerhard Kremer. 1512–94, Flemish cartographer and mathematician

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Word Origin and History for mercator

Mercator

type of map projection, 1660s, invented by Flemish geographer Gerhard Kremer (1512-1594), who Latinized his surname, which means "dealer, tradesman," as Mercator (see merchant). He first used this type of map projection in 1568.

mercator in Science

Mercator

[mər-kā′tər]Gerhardus Originally Gerhard Kremer 1512-1594

Flemish cartographer who in 1568 developed the Mercator projection. In 1585 he began work on a book of maps of Europe, a project that was later completed by his son and published in 1595. As a result of the drawing of the Greek titan Atlas carrying the globe on his shoulders on the book's cover, the term atlas was subsequently applied to any book of maps.