Gerardus Mercator
E82793
Gerardus Mercator was a 16th-century Flemish cartographer best known for creating the Mercator projection, a revolutionary world map that became a standard for nautical navigation.
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Flemish person
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cartographer ⓘ cosmographer ⓘ geographer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| birthName |
Gerard de Kremer
ⓘ
Gerhard Kremer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Duisburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 16th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Duchy of Cleves
ⓘ
Habsburg Netherlands ⓘ |
| created |
regional maps of Europe
ⓘ
wall maps ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1512-03-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1594-12-02 ⓘ |
| designed |
celestial globes
ⓘ
globes ⓘ terrestrial globes ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Catholic University of Leuven
ⓘ
surface form:
University of Leuven
|
| employer | Duchy of Cleves ⓘ |
| era | Renaissance ⓘ |
| familyName |
de Kremer
ⓘ
surface form:
Kremer
de Kremer ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cartography
ⓘ
geography ⓘ mapmaking ⓘ |
| givenName | Gerard ⓘ |
| hasPartInWork | first use of the word "atlas" in a book title ⓘ |
| influenced | modern cartography ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Claudius Ptolemaeus
ⓘ
surface form:
Ptolemy
|
| knownFor |
16th-century world map used for nautical navigation
ⓘ
creating the Mercator projection ⓘ popularizing the term "atlas" for a collection of maps ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Dutch
ⓘ
Latin ⓘ |
| laterReligion | Lutheranism ⓘ |
| latinizedName | Gerardus Mercator self-link ⓘ |
| mapProjectionDeveloped | Mercator projection ⓘ |
| name | Gerardus Mercator self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Flemish ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Mercator–Hondius atlas
ⓘ
surface form:
Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura
Mercator projection ⓘ world map of 1569 ⓘ |
| occupation |
cartographer
ⓘ
cosmographer ⓘ geographer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
County of Flanders
ⓘ
Habsburg Netherlands ⓘ Rupelmonde ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Duchy of Cleves
ⓘ
Duisburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purposeOfWork | improving nautical navigation ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| studied |
mathematics
ⓘ
philosophy ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Antwerp
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Duisburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Leuven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.