File:Contemporary Turkey and neighbours - Gerard Mercator's 1569 map of the world - Sheet 10 (cropped).tif

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English: Gerard Mercator's 1569 map of the world - Sheet 10
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Source https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233594522/view
Author
Gerardus Mercator  (1512–1594)  wikidata:Q6353 s:it:Autore:Gerardo Mercatore q:en:Gerardus Mercator
 
Gerardus Mercator
Alternative names
Gerardo Mercatore; Gerard De Kremer; Gerard de Cremere; Gerhard Mercator; Gérard Mercator
Description mathematician, geographer and cartographer
Date of birth/death 5 March 1512 Edit this at Wikidata 2 December 1594 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Rupelmonde Duisburg
Work period from 1535 until 1592
date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1535-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1592-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Leuven, Duisburg
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creator QS:P170,Q6353
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