List of Famous people with last name Mercator

Gerardus Mercator

First Name Gerardus
Born on March 5, 1512
Died on December 2, 1594 (aged 82)

Gerardus Mercator was a 16th-century geographer, cosmographer and cartographer from the County of Flanders. 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.

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Rumold Mercator

First Name Rumold
Born on January 1, 1545
Died on January 1, 1599 (aged 54)

Rumold Mercator (1545–1599) was a cartographer and the son of cartographer Gerardus Mercator.

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Arnold Mercator

First Name Arnold
Last Name Mercator
Born on August 31, 1537
Died on July 6, 1587 (aged 49)

Arnold or Arnoldus Mercator was a Southern Netherlandish cartographer, mathematician and classical philologist. He was the eldest son of cartographer Gerardus Mercator and a brother of Rumold Mercator.

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