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

Type of: geographer

Encyclopedia: Gerardus Mercator

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