KnowraGerardus MercatorLinked fromLinked fromThe 10 pages that link to Gerardus Mercator, each with the reason it gives.All 10Related 9Compared with 1CartographyRelated: His projection addressed navigation while greatly enlarging high-latitude regions.Map projectionRelated: His 1569 world map made a conformal projection influential for maritime navigation.Terra AustralisRelated: His maps helped establish a vast southern continent as a plausible feature of world geography.Celestial globeRelated: His workshop produced influential celestial globes as well as terrestrial ones.John DeeRelated: Dee met Mercator and promoted his maps and instruments in England.Abraham OrteliusRelated: Mercator and Ortelius were contemporaries whose work helped define Flemish cartography.Arno PetersCompared with: Peters criticized the Mercator map’s inflated high-latitude areas as a contrast to his own approach.History of geographyRelated: His projection became a landmark in the history of navigation and world mapping.Jodocus HondiusRelated: Hondius extended Mercator’s atlas after acquiring its copperplates.Oronce FineRelated: Mercator’s later mapmaking marks a different direction from Fine’s sixteenth-century cartographic work.