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Gerardus Mercator
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- Gerardus Mercator was a Flemish engraver and cartographer who lived during the so-called Age of Exploration, that is, the 16th century, when European capitalism and colonialism began their epochal period of global conquest, and his work both reflected and greatly enabled this expansion. Born Gerhard Kremer, Mercator changed his name as a university student in Louvain, where he lived from 1530 to 1552. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Mercator, Gerardus (1512–1594)]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Gerardus_Mercator
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