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Mercator
Gerardus Mercator
Gerhard Kremer
Definition: Flemish geographer who lived in Germany; he invented the Mercator projection of maps of the globe (1512-1594)
Definition: Pertaining to an orthomorphic map projection, in which meridians appear at right-angles to the equator, and lines of latitude are horizontal lines whose distance from each other increases with distance from the equator.