NOUN
- Flemish geographer who lived in Germany; he invented the Mercator projection of maps of the globe (1512-1594)
How To Use Gerardus Mercator In A Sentence
- The volume was painstakingly compiled by hand in the 16th century by Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator, the man believed to have coined the term "atlas" for a collection of maps. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
