New Google Doodle Honors Inventor of Flat Map Gerardus Mercator
To celebrate his 503rd birthday, Flemish mathematician and cartographer Gerardus Mercator, who in 1959 discovered how to create a flat map that takes into consideration the curvatures of the earth, has been honored in a new Google Doodle. His theory .
Maps: About Mercator projection - Qlik Community
Like all map projections, the Mercator projection (a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569) is attempting to fit a curved surface onto a plane distorting the��.
McClung Museum receives large gift of rare maps
They were created by mapmaking giants of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, including Gerard Mercator, the famous cartographer who was the first to plot the straight-line courses (Mercator projection) typical on todays maps; Abraham Ortelius, the.
Cart��grafos ilustres (II): Gerard Kremer (Gerardus Mercator.
Despu��s de un mes en el que no he podido parar una tarde entera para poder escribir en el blog, hoy os traigo el segundo cap��tulo de la serie de Cart��grafos Ilustres con el nombre del cart��grafo que m��s renombre tiene en��.
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MapCarte 337/365: A New and Enlarged Description of the.
MapCarte 337/365: A New and Enlarged Description of the Earth by Gerardus Mercator, 1569. These charts provided Mercator with the detail of coastlines that made this new projection so useful for supporting navigation.
Hors Cadre : une s��rie de trois conf��rences �� ne pas manquer
Son premier invit�� (le 19 mars �� 19 h) est un sp��cialiste de la nordicit��, Jo�� Bouchard et le sujet de la premi��re rencontre est le livre LApparition du Nord selon G��rard Mercator, dont il est le coauteur, avec St��fano Biondo et Louis-Edmond Hamelin.
Fathers of data visualization: Gerardus Mercator 1512-1594.
In 1569, the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator presented his most well-known work, a cylindrical map projection of the world known as the Mercator projection. This map became standard for nautical purposes because it gave��.
G��rard Mercator, lhomme qui a invent�� le GPS il y a 500 ans !
Son nom ne vous est pas familier, et pourtant, G��rard Mercator vous accompagne au quotidien. Que cela soit sur les bancs de l��cole, sur les t��l��phones portables ou en voiture, ses travaux nous facilitent la vie ! N�� en Belgique pr��s dAnvers le 5 mars.
Duisburg: Tromnau: Mercator war kein Fl��chtling
Von Mercator-Apotheke bis Mercator-Werbung: In unserer Stadt gibt es wenig, das nicht nach Gerhard Kremer oder eben latinisiert Gerardus Mercator benannt ist. Klar, dass daher jetzt auch der j��ngste Vortrag der Reihe DU an Rhein und Ruhr - Duisburger .
GERARDUS MERCATOR - The Man who Mapped the Planet
On December 2, 1594, German cartographer, philosopher and mathematician Gerardus Mercator passed away. He is best known for his work in cartography, particular the world map of 1569 based on a new projection which��.
Gerardo Mercatore e le sue carte
Gerardo Mercatore (che era fiammingo e si chiamava Gerhard Kremer: il suo nome latino Gerardus Mercator fu italianizzato in Gerardo Mercatore) fu uno scienziato e artista, studioso di matematica e astronomia, divenuto famoso in particolare per una.
Gerardus Mercator, date of birth - Astrotheme
Astrology: Gerardus Mercator, born March 5, 1512 in Rupelmonde, Horoscope, astrological portrait, dominant planets, birth data, heights, and interactive chart. 48519 Free Horoscopes and Astrological Portraits.
Mercators Atlas of Europe 1572 - ebooktreasures
Some time around 1572 the Crown Prince of Cleves wanted to go on a European tour, but he found there were no reliable atlases. So his father asked Gerardus Mercator, the most famous map-maker of the time, to compile him one from��.
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Ein Kartograf von Welt
Gerhard Mercator, der eigentlich Gerard De Kremer hei��t, promoviert an der Universit��t in L��wen und arbeitet beim Astronomen und Kartografen Gemma Frisius an der Erstellung von dessen Erd- und Himmelsgloben mit. 1551 l��dt ihn der Herzog von .
Efem��rides de Cultura para el 5 de marzo
M��xico, 4 Mar (Notimex).- Un 5 de marzo nacieron figuras de la Cultura como el te��logo Gerardus Mercator y el dramaturgo Joaqu��n Calvo Sotelo; murieron el pintor Antonio Allegri, el compositor Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, el dramaturgo Wilberto Cant��n.
GeoGarage: Gerardus Mercator : father of modern mapmaking
Today March 5, 2012 marks the fitfth centenary of the birth of Gerardus Mercator who developed the famous map projection able to represent lines of constant course as straight segments, thus preserving the angles, which��.
VIDEO: Heres Everything Wrong With the Map We Use Today
In 1569, cartographer Gerardus Mercator created the map as a navigation tool for sailors. Almost 450 years later people believe that his map depicts a skewed depiction of our world. According to Mental Floss, a German journalist and filmmaker even.
Maps at McClung Museum offer glimpse into history
Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius of Amsterdam made this copperplate-engraved, hand-colored map in 1606. Titled Fessae et Marocchi Regna, it is one of 191 maps recently donated to the University of Tennessee McClung Museum of Natural History .
Gerardus Mercators Google Doodle. Illuminati Freemason.
Proof of Heaven? - I am delighted to be part of the Patheos book club about Eben Alexanders book, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeons Journey into the Afterlife. It is an acco. 5 hours ago. Experimental Theology.
��Por qu�� el mapa mundial est�� errado?
El video publicado por BuzzFeed demuestra de forma din��mica las incongruencias del mapa con el que la humanidad se gu��a, un atlas creado para las navegaciones por el cart��grafo Gerardus Mercator en el siglo XVI, seg��n informa Actualidad RT. El clip .
GERARDUS MERCATOR �� Co��rafya Bilim
Ger��ek ad�� Gerard De Kremer olan Gerardus Mercator, Mercator harita projeksiyonunu geli��tiren co��rafyac�� ve kartografc��d��r. Bel��ika topraklar��nda yer alan Flandrede 1512 y��l��nda do��du ve Almanyan��n s��n��rlar��nda yer alan��.
March 5 Birthdays: GERARDUS MERCATOR - Infoplease
Gerardus Mercator: Latin form of his real name, Gerhard Kremer. Flemish geographer, mathematician, and cartographer. He studied in Louvain, where he had a geographical establishment (1534). From 1537 to 1540 he surveyed and mapped��.
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Mathematiker Mercator: Google Doodle: Gerhard Mercator, der Kartograf der.
. der heute die Bezeichnung ���Mercator-Projektion��� tr��gt. Mercator war Sohn eines Schusters. An der Universit��t L��wen studierte er Philosophie, Mathematik und Astronomie und latinisierte seinen b��rgerlichen Namen Gerhard Kremer in Gerardus Mercator.
Geographer Hall of Fame ��� GERARDUS MERCATOR.
Joining Waldo Tobler as the second Geographer Hall of Fame inductee is Gerardus Mercator. Mercator was a 16th. Mark Monmonier wrote about the Mercator Projection in Rhumb Lines and Map Wars (heres an excerpt).
History of Science 2013: GERARDUS MERCATOR (1512-1594)
Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) was born Gerardus de Kremer in Belgium in the early 1500s. He studied philosophy, mathematics, and eventually astronomy while in school. In 1552, he opened a cartographic business,��.
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Gerardus Mercator, Flemish geographer-mathematician (1512-1594); Giovani Tiepolo, Italian painter (1696-1770); Soong Mayling, better known as Madame Chiang, wife of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of Taiwan (1898-2003); Sir Rex Harrison, British .
Famed Flemish mapmaker, GERARDUS MERCATOR was born on.
But they did have a problem with flat maps, which were often difficult to use in navigation. The Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator helped to solve this problem with the publication of a new map in 1569. Mercators solution��.
GERARDUS MERCATOR and other guesses on the North Pole.
Gerardus Mercator and other guesses on the North Pole. tumblr_ng8fu77BMz1rasnq9o1_1280. As Ive mentioned before, there were many inventive and wild ideas as to what would be at the north pole. Inventio Fortunata��.