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Mercator   /mərkˈeɪtər/   Listen
Mercator

noun
1.
Flemish geographer who lived in Germany; he invented the Mercator projection of maps of the globe (1512-1594).  Synonyms: Gerardus Mercator, Gerhard Kremer.



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... which are extant, amount to the number of 146. His book Against the twelve Anthematisms of St. Cyril, he tacitly recalled by his condemnation of Nestorius; also his Pentalogus on the same subject, which is now lost, except some fragments preserved by Marius Mercator. His three dialogues against the Eutychians, he entitled Polymorphus, (i.e. of many shapes,) and Eranistes, that is, the Beggar, because the Eutychian error was gathered from the various heresies of Marcian, Valentin, Arius, and Apollinaris. ...
— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler



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