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Mercator, Gerardus (1512–1594)
Flemish cartographer and calligrapher best known for Mercator's projection, which he first used in 1569 for a world map. The projection is from a point at the center of the Earth through the surface of the globe onto a cylinder that touches the Earth around the equator.
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