Mercator and Modern Map Projection

Gerard de Kremer

16th-century Flemish geographer, cartographer, cosmographer, mathematician, and maker of astronomical and surveying instruments. He is particularly famous for producing a world map using the Mercator projection for navigation in 1569. This projection, which represents rhumb lines as straight lines, was long used in nautical charts. He also produced numerous globes, celestial globes, and maps, and was one of the key figures who established the word "Atlas" to mean a collection of maps through his "Atlas" published in 1595. In addition to geography, he was also interested in mathematics, philosophy, theology, history, chronology, and geomagnetism.

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Year	Gerard de Kremer
1512	Birth of Gerard de Kremer (Period: March 5, 1512, Location: Rupelmonde, present-day part of Sint-Niklaas, Belgium)
1521	Italian Wars (Age: 8 years old, Period: 1551–1559, Location: Italy, France, Netherlands, etc.)
1527	Education at Brethren of the Common Life (Gerard de Cremer, Age: 14 years old, Period: 1527–1530, Location: 's-Hertogenbosch, present-day Netherlands)
1530	Studies at the University of Leuven (Gerard de Cremer, Age: 17 years old, Period: c. 1530–1532, Location: Leuven, present-day Belgium)
1534	Establishment of map and surveying instrument workshop (Age: 21 years old, Period: c. 1534, Location: Leuven, present-day Belgium)
1536	Marriage (Gerard de Cremer, Barbara Schellekens, Age: 23 years old, Period: c. 1534 (Some sources state 1536), Location: Presumed Leuven, present-day Belgium)
1537	Production and publication of map of Palestine (Gerard de Cremer, Age: 24 years old, Period: 1537, Location: Leuven, present-day Belgium) Surveying and production of map of Flanders (Gerard de Cremer, Age: 24 years old, Period: 1537–1540, Location: Flanders region)
1541	Production of terrestrial globe (Gerard de Cremer, Age: 28 years old, Period: 1541, Location: Leuven, present-day Belgium)
1544	Arrest and imprisonment on suspicion of heresy (Gerard de Cremer, Age: 31 years old, Period: 1544, Location: Leuven, present-day Belgium) Imprisonment on charges of heresy (Gerard de Cremer, Age: 31 years old, Period: 1544, Location: Leuven, present-day Belgium)
1551	Production of celestial globe (Gerard de Cremer, Age: 38 years old, Period: 1551, Location: Leuven, present-day Belgium)
1552	Relocation from Leuven due to religious conflict (Gerard de Cremer, Age: 39 years old, Period: 1552, Location: Leuven to Duisburg) Religious and academic activities in Duisburg (Gerard de Cremer, Age: 39 years old, Period: 1552–1594, Location: Duisburg, Duchy of Cleves) Relocation to Duisburg (Gerard de Cremer, Age: 39 years old, Period: 1552, Location: Duisburg, present-day Germany)
1554	Production of "Map of Europe" (Gerard de Cremer, Age: 41 years old, Period: 1554, Location: Duisburg, Duchy of Cleves)
1560	Research on chronology (Gerard de Cremer, Age: 47 years old, Period: 1560s–c. 1569, Location: Duisburg, Duchy of Cleves)
1564	Appointment as cosmographer to the Duke of Cleves (Gerard de Cremer, Age: 51 years old, Period: c. 1564, Location: Duchy of Cleves)
1569	Publication of 1569 world map (Age: 56 years old, Period: 1569, Location: Duisburg, Duchy of Cleves) Production of "World Map on Mercator Projection" (Age: 56 years old, Period: 1569, Location: Duisburg, Duchy of Cleves)
1570	Conception of "Atlas" and map production (Age: 57 years old, Period: 1570s–1590s, Location: Duisburg, present-day Germany)
1589	Marriage (Gerard de Cremer, Gertrud Vierlings, Age: 76 years old, Period: 1589, Location: Presumed Duisburg, present-day Germany)
1590	Revision and publication of "Geographia" (Age: 77 years old, Period: 1590s, Location: Duisburg, present-day Germany)
1594	Death of Gerard de Kremer (Age: 82 years old, Period: December 2, 1594 (aged 82))

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The English royal family	Henry Tudor Edward Tudor Mary Tudor Elizabeth Tudor
The English Reformation	Thomas Cranmer William Tyndale Thomas More John Fisher Hugh Latimer John Foxe John Jewel Richard Hooker
Renaissance science	Nicolaus Copernicus Andries van Wesel Gerard de Kremer John Napier Filippo Bruno Galileo Galilei
Renaissance Art	Leonardo da Vinci Benvenuto Cellini Andrea Palladio Philibert de l'Orme Pierre Lescot Jean Goujon

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