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Gerardus Mercator (/dʒɪˈrɑːrdəs mɜːrˈkeɪtər/;[a][b][c] 5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594)[d] was a 16th-century geographer, cosmographer and cartographer from the County of Flanders. He is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing (rhumb lines) as straight lines—an innovation that is still employed in nautical charts
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