Gerardus Mercator
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Gerardus Mercator was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer. He is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant b
1574 portrait by Hogenberg; translation
Rupelmonde, now in Belgium, from Flandria illustrata, 1641
The playwright and teacher Georgius Macropedius
Antoine Perrenot
Edward Wright was an English mathematician and cartographer noted for his book Certaine Errors in Navigation, which for the first time explained the mathematical basis of the Mercator projection by bu
Hilliard's portrait of George, Earl of Cumberland (c. 1590, detail). Wright dedicated his work Certaine Errors in Navigation (1599) to him.
The New River at Enfield Town Park in London – photographed on 3 February 2008
The Scotsman John Napier (1550–1617), the inventor of logarithms, depicted in an engraving by Samuel Freeman (1773–1857) based on a 1616 painting at the University of Edinburgh
Title page of Wright's Certaine Errors in Navigation (Second edition, 1610)