Gerardus mercator biography of mahatma

          A biography of the sixteenth-century cartographer Gerardus Mercator, who invented a method of projecting the curvature of the Earth's surface on to a flat.!

          Biography

          Gerard Mercator's parents were Hubert and Emerentia Kremer.

          Hubert Kremer worked the land and also was a cobbler, that is a shoemaker.

          Carta geografica del mondo secondo la visione del Tolomeo, tratta dalla Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo a cura di Gerard Mercator, pubblicata in varie edizioni tra.

          Hubert and Emerentia were people of lowly status but Hubert had an brother Gisbert who had been educated at Louvain University and was a priest in Rupelmonde. It was in the hospice of St Johann in Rupelmonde, where Gisbert was a priest, that Gerard was born.

          He was the seventh child of Hubert and Emerentia who, a few weeks after the birth, returned to their home town of Gangelt.

          For the first five years of his life Gerard and his parents lived in difficult conditions in Gangelt.

          His knowledge of geography came from his library of over a thousand books and maps, from his visitors and.

        1. His knowledge of geography came from his library of over a thousand books and maps, from his visitors and.
        2. Gerardus Mercator ( - , B) cartographer.
        3. A biography of the sixteenth-century cartographer Gerardus Mercator, who invented a method of projecting the curvature of the Earth's surface on to a flat.
        4. The Mercator Projection is a world map designed by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in Mahatma Gandhi.
        5. Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish cartographer, created the Mercator projection in the 16th century, making sea navigation easier despite.

          6. The family income was insufficient to provide for more than the basic needs of life and most of their diet consisted of bread for they could afford little else. Hubert had leased a house in Rupelmonde in , shortly before Gerard's birth, and in they journeyed from Gangelt to Rupelmonde to begin a new life.

          Gerard began attending school in Rupelmonde shortly aft