Even if you've never seen Gerardus Mercator, you've almost certainly seen his work. His Mercator projection map, invented in 1569, was the primary map that navigators used for years. It's the form ...

Gerardus Mercator: 3 ways influential cartographer changed the way we look at the world. The famous 1569 map is one of the most influential in the world - but it isn't entirely accurate ...

Gerardus Mercator's maps gave us a truer view of our world and the means to explore it. Library of Congress Gerardus Mercator changed the way we see the world.

The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

The most common map is the Mercator projection map, which was created by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569, according to IFLScience. Lars H. Rohwedder/Wikimedia Commons ...

The flat map, created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569 is still used today by Google Maps. This map from circa 1798 was charted according to the Mercator’s projection. Photo ...

T o celebrate his 503rd birthday, Flemish mathematician and cartographer Gerardus Mercator, who in 1569 discovered how to create a flat map that takes into consideration the curvatures of the ...

Peters’s position was that the Mercator Projection—a cylindrical projection first developed in 1569 by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator—was not only inaccurate, but also racist.

Egyptian scholar Claudius Ptolemy—known as the “inventor of geography”—revolutionized the field by recording latitude and longitude in the second century A.D., while Gerardus Mercator’s ...

Many of the maps we use today are based on a solution created by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer. In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection.