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Noun: Mercator  mur'key-tu(r)
  1. Flemish geographer who lived in Germany; he invented the Mercator projection of maps of the globe (1512-1594)
    - Gerardus Mercator, Gerhard Kremer

Type of: geographer

Encyclopedia: Mercator, Gerardus

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