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Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer (1512–1594)

Also known as: Gerhard Mercator, Gérard de Cremer, Gerard de Kremer, Gerard Mercator, Gerard Merkator, Gerardus Cremers

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Abraham Ortelius1527–1598
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Compiled the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, an early modern atlas of engraved maps comparable in scope and style to Mercator's Atlas. (AI reason)
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Ptolemy100–170
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His Geography is the foundational mathematical cartography text that Mercator edited and built upon. (AI reason)
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Gemma Frisius1508–1555
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Wrote Latin treatises on globes, triangulation and mathematical geography in the same Low Countries tradition. (AI reason)
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Sebastian Münster1488–1552
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His Cosmographia blends maps and descriptive geography of the known world in Renaissance style. (AI reason)
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Hondius, Jodocus1563–1612
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Continued and expanded the Mercator Atlas with engraved maps in the same cartographic idiom. (AI reason)
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Martin Waldseemüller1470–1520
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Created early world maps and a Cosmographiae Introductio reworking Ptolemaic geography. (AI reason)
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Peter Apian1495–1552
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Wrote Cosmographia and astronomical works combining mathematics, instruments and mapmaking. (AI reason)
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Edward Wright1997–
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His Certaine Errors in Navigation explains the mathematics behind Mercator's projection for navigators. (AI reason)
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Christopher Saxton1542–
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Produced an engraved regional atlas of England and Wales in Elizabethan cartographic style. (AI reason)
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