Gerardus Mercator
1512–1594
Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer (1512–1594)
writer · mathematician · inventor
Born in Rupelmonde
Contemporaries
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- Michelangelo (1475–1564)
- Martin Luther (1483–1546)
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616)
- Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543)
- Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528)
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