4th+Period+-+Gerardus+Mercator

=4th Period - Gerardus Mercator= By: Kristian E.

Date of birth: March 5, 1512

Location of birth: Rupelmonde, Flanders

Parents’ names: Hubert and Emerentiana Kremer

Family background: Gerardus married Barbra Schellenkens in 1536 during the month of August. The next year the had a son. Before they knew it they had six children. They had three girls and three boys. When he was a kid his parents also had six children. He also married Gertrude Vierlings in 1589.

Date of death: December 2, 1594

Location of death/grave: St. Saviour's Church, Duisburg

Education: When he was 15 years old he went to a Monastic school. At that school you learned how to copy sacred text, they learned Christian theology and Latin. He also learned something that he soon became interested in which is italic script which he used for his maps and other things. He went to the University of Louvian, where he got a masters degree.

Career: Mercator published an Atlas. Later he published a second volume of an Atlas. He made globes, maps, scientific instruments, and nice engraves. Gerardus mad the first globe. He published a map of Europe, and he made a map of Flanders. He also published a Chronologia. Legacy: He is famous for making wonderful maps, globes, and plates with engraved lines in it. He could make big maps, little maps , big globes and little globes. Mercator also was a very good drawer. His good drawing came in handy because he had to draw features on maps. Gerardus is also famous for making atlas's and thing like that. He is the man best known for creating Mercator Projection.

Additional/Interesting information: Most of Barbra's and Gerardus's kids grew up to be mapmakers. People now still don't know what his religion was. Gerardus Mercator is called "The father of modern mapmaking." In 1544 he was arrested for Hersey. When he lived in Duisburg there was less than three thousand people living there. Flanders is what we call today Belgium. His first map was a map of palestine. Mercator was the first to make a map of North and South America on a map together.

Sources Cited (Gerardus Mercator – 4th Period)

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