Five square rigged school ships entered the race, Denmark's Danmark, Norway's Christian Radich and Sorlandet, Belgium's Mercator and Portugal's first Sagres ( ship ).

In the beginning of March 2011, Mercator showed interests to take over Konzum, the biggest retail chain in Croatia witch is in property of Agrokor, and is also the leader by market share in Serbia and Bosnia and Hercegovina.

The isometric latitude is conventionally denoted by ψ ( not to be confused with the geocentric latitude ): it is used in the development of the ellipsoidal versions of the normal Mercator projection and the Transverse Mercator projection.

Most nautical charts are constructed on the Mercator projection whose scale varies by approximately a factor of six from the equator to 80 ° north or south latitude.

The first mention of the natural logarithm was by Nicholas Mercator in his work Logarithmotechnia published in 1668, although the mathematics teacher John Speidell had already in 1619 compiled a table on the natural logarithm.

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.

To the same belong chapters xiii-xv, xvii, and brief parts of other chapters of the fragments which Jean Garnier ( Auctarium ) included under the title, Pentology of Theodoret on the Incarnation as well as three of the five fragments referred by Marius Mercator to the fifth book of some writing of Theodoret.

The Mercator projection, for example, distorts by exaggerating the size of regions at high latitude.

In musical tuning, Jing Fang ( 78 – 37 BCE ) realized that 53 perfect fifths was approximate to 31 octaves while creating a musical scale of 60 tones, calculating the difference at < sup > 177147 </ sup >⁄< sub > 176776 </ sub > ( the same value of 53 equal temperament discovered by the German mathematician Nicholas Mercator, i. e. 3 < sup > 53 </ sup >/ 2 < sup > 84 </ sup >).

It was taken up by his followers, the French cosmographer Oronce Fine in his world map of 1531, and the Flemish cartographers Gerard Mercator in 1538 and Abraham Ortelius in 1570.

Terrestrial globe by Mercator dating from 1541.

Maps of France, Germany and the Netherlands were added in 1585 and of the Balkans and Greece in 1588 ; further maps were published by Mercator's son Rumold Mercator in 1595 after the death of his father.

The county has the unusual distinction of forming a perfect square by Mercator map projection.

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

In 1560, however, when travelling with Mercator to Trier, Lorraine, and Poitiers, he seems to have been attracted, largely by Mercator ’ s influence, towards the career of a scientific geographer.

It was originally introduced around 1670 by either Nicolaus Mercator or Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

In the 16th century, it was known as the Saint-Pierre Strait, especially on maps by Gerardus Mercator ( 1569 ) and Cornelius Wytfliet ( 1597 ).

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 ).

Finding the loxodromes between two given points can be done graphically on a Mercator map, or by solving a nonlinear system of two equations in the two unknowns tan ( α ) and λ < sub > 0 </ sub >.

In navigation, he was expected to be able to keep a reckoning of the ship's way by plane sailing, to use Mercator projection maps and observation of the sun and stars to determine the course and position of the ship, and to understand the variation of the compass.

In August 2007, Air Tanzania selected the Revenue Accounting Bureau Service offered by Mercator, the airline IT solutions provider of the Emirates Airline Group.

Mercator Gold then conducted an extensive drilling programme and re-opened the mill, commencing production in early October 2007.

* Serbia-11 % ( Together with M-Rodić, d. o. o., which is owned 76 % by Mercator )

Mercator is a Slovenian retail chain based in Ljubljana.

Today, Mercator is the biggest Slovenian and southeastern retail chain, operating hypermarkets, supermarkets and grocery stores in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Albania.

In autumn of 2010, Mercator took over Croatian retail chain company Getro, which is the sixth biggest retail chain on Croatian territories.

* Mercator ( retail ), a Slovenian supermarket chain

Unlike with geographical maps, where many famous projections are known ( such as the Mercator projection ), the calendar projection is a matter of such triviality that no names for these exist in common circulation.

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

The rectifying latitude is also of great importance in the construction of the Transverse Mercator projection.

For example, the ' exact ' version of the Transverse Mercator projection on the ellipsoid is not a double projection.

Perhaps the best-known world-map projection is the Mercator projection, originally designed as a form of nautical chart.

Mercator projection of the world between 82 ° S and 82 ° N.

* 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.

* March or April – Mercator Cooper, American sea captain ( b. 1803 )

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

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

* September 29 – Mercator Cooper, American sea captain ( d. 1872 )

* Gerardus Mercator devises the Mercator projection.

* Gerardus Mercator makes his first globe.