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Gerardus Mercator, 1512-1594. Flemish
cartographer whose most important innovation was a map, later known as the
Mercator projection, on which parallels and meridians are rendered as
straight lines spaced so as to produce at any point an accurate ratio of
latitude to longitude. Mercator also introduced the term atlas for a
collection of maps. Meer weten over de slimme Belg Gerard Kremer
alias "Mercator" en zijn verdiensten? En of hij nou toch echt
wel in Duisburg en niet in Doesburg gestorven is, Roefof (1c)? |
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