* 1594 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer ( b. 1512 )

* Gerardus Mercator ( 1512 – 1594 ), an innovative cartographer and originator of the Mercator projection.

Gerardus Mercator in a map published in 1595 marks Sibier both as the name of a settlement and of the surrounding territory along a left tributary of the Ob.

This world map by Gerardus Mercator ( 1587 ) besides the classical continents Europe, Africa and Asia shows the Americas as America sive India Nova, New Guinea and other islands of Southeast Asia as well as a yet undetermined Terra Australis.

* March 5 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish-German cartographer ( d. 1594 )

* December 2 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish-German cartographer ( b. 1512 )

* Gerardus Mercator devises the Mercator projection.

* Gerardus Mercator makes his first globe.

* Gerardus Mercator

Scientists, such as Gerardus Mercator ( 1569 ) and Alexander Dalrymple as late as 1767 argued for its existence, with such arguments as that there should be a large landmass in the south as a counterweight to the known landmasses in the Northern Hemisphere.

It was this Atlas to whom Gerardus Mercator was referring when he first used the name " atlas ", and he included a depiction of the King on the title-page.

These star charts feature a cylindrical projection similar to Mercator projection, the latter being a cartographic innovation of Gerardus Mercator in 1569.

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Gerardus Mercator ( born 5 March 1512 in Rupelmonde in the Hapsburg County of Flanders, Holy Roman Empire, died 2 December 1594 in Duisburg, United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Holy Roman Empire ) was a cartographer, philosopher and mathematician.

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* Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer ( 1512 – 1594 )

It is the birthplace of Gerardus Mercator, a famous Flemish cartographer, who was imprisoned for several years in the castle there, a remnant of which today serves as a museum.

The productions of cartographer Gerardus Mercator and the foundation of a university in 1655 established the city's renown as " Educated Duisburg " (" Duisburgum Doctum ").

* Itinerarium-a geography book by Jacobus Cnoyen of's-Hertogenbosch, cited by Gerardus Mercator

* Gerardus Mercator, cartographer

* Gerardus Mercator, Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura, Amsterdam 1613

Likewise, there are the same Chinese vehicles with sails depicted in the Atlas of Gerardus Mercator ( 1512 – 1594 ), as well as the 1626 book Kingdome of China by John Speed.

Gerardus Mercator's map of the North Pole from 1595

Arctic continent on the Gerardus Mercator map of 1595.

The borders drawn on some of these maps would first make Cathay the northeastern section of China ( e. g. 1595 map by Gerardus Mercator ), or, later, a region separated by China by the Great Wall and possibly some mountains and / or wilderness ( as in a 1610 map by Jodocus Hondius, or a 1626 map by John Speed ).

File: 1595 Europa Mercator. jpg | Gerardus Mercator Map from 1595

In the geographer Gerardus Mercator ’ s 1595 world atlas, the place was catalogued under the name WOLFZIM

The name Mount St. Pedro was used by map makers such as Gerardus Mercator in his India Orientalis map published around 1595, Nicolaes Visscher II in his Indiae Orientalis map in the early 17th century, and several other cartographers.

The Geographia Generalis by Bernhardus Varenius and Gerardus Mercator's world map are prime examples of the new breed of scientific geography.

In 1577, cartographer Gerardus Mercator wrote a letter containing the only detailed description of the contents of a geographical text about the Arctic region of the Atlantic, possibly written over two centuries earlier by one Jacob Cnoyen.

Bishop Willoughby offered to consecrate Wedgwood to the episcopate, but Wedgwood approached a number of other bishops seeking consecration, including the Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht Gerardus Gul ( by whom Mathew had originally been consecrated ), Bishop Frederick James, a fellow Theosophist.

In 1909 the first Mariavite bishop was consecrated to the episcopate in Utrecht, by the Utrecht Union Old Catholic Archbishop Gerardus Gul.

Bishop Arnold Mathew being Holy Orders | ordained a bishop by Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands # Old Catholic Archbishops of Utrecht | Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht Gerardus Gul at St. Gertrude's Cathedral, in the city of Utrecht ( city ) | Utrecht, on 28 April 1908

The Palisades appear on the first European map of the New World, made by Gerardus Mercator in 1541 based on the description given him by Giovanni da Verrazano, who suggested they look like a " fence of stakes ".

He was the son of Johannes ( Jan ) Vos, a Protestant from the Netherlands, who fled from persecution into the Electorate of the Palatinate and briefly became pastor in the village near Heidelberg where Gerardus ( the Latinized form of Gerrit ) was born, before friction with the strict Lutherans of the Palatinate caused him to settle the following year at the University of Leiden as student of theology, and finally became pastor at Dordrecht, where he died in 1585.

This usage continued into the Renaissance: for example Gerardus Mercator described his 1569 world map as a planisphere.

One of the many illustrations from Gerardus Mercator-in this case of Aquarius, the water-bearer, overlooking Capricorn ( the mountain-goat ) and pouring water into the mouth of the southern fish ( Pisces ).

In 1551, Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish cartographer, produced a celestial globe portraying the 48 traditional Ptolemaic constellations in addition to two others, Coma Berenices and Antinous.

In 1908 the Archbishop of Utrecht Gerardus Gul, consecrated Father Arnold Harris Mathew, a former Catholic priest, as Regionary Bishop for England.

Proteins were first described by the Dutch chemist Gerardus Johannes Mulder and named by the Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius in 1838.

Around 1850 the " Utrechtian School " of science was formed with Pieter Harting, Gerardus J. Mulder, Christophorus H. D. Buys Ballot and Franciscus C. Donders among the leading scientists.

The first, not yet practical, form of gyrocompass was patented in 1885 by Marinus Gerardus van den Bos.

Johannes Gerardus Hendrikus Janmaat was born on November 3, 1934 in Nes aan de Amstel in North Holland, as the oldest of nine children in a traditional Roman Catholic family.

Gerard Groote ( October 1340 – 20 August 1384 ), otherwise Gerrit or Gerhard Groet, in Latin Gerardus Magnus, was a Dutch preacher and founder of the Brethren of the Common Life and a key figure in the Devotio Moderna movement.

* The Gerardus Mercator Museum traces the history of cartography back to its origins.