in Duisburg, then Vereinigte Herzogtümer Jülich-Kleve-Berg, nowadays Germany
shoemaker in Gangelt, Hubert de Cremer (1xxx-1526) ; Emerance (mother)
in 's-Hertogenbosch by the famous humanist Macropedius and at the University of Leuven.
Germany
1538 and 1569 world maps, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_1569_world_map ; Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Fugura (Duisburg 1595 and 1596; facsimile reprint of the 1595-ed.: Stuttgart, Zurich & Vienna 1980);
Court Cosmographer to Wilhelm der Reiche, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg since 1564; prof. of cosmography in Duisburg since 1552
cartographer and mathematician Gemma Frisius (1508-1555) and Gaspar Myrica from 1535 to 1536 to construct a terrestrial globe ; cartographer -> Abraham Ortelius ; Petrus Bertius (1565-1629) ;
cartographical map-making, 3D globe making, copper & brass engraving & hand-colouring; 3D globe making;
see many interesting links in http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Mercator
Mokre 2005: 18 & 61 ; ADB 21 (1885): 385-97 ; Nicholas Crane: G. M.: The man who mapped the planet (London 2003) ; Rienk Vermij (ed.): G. M. und seine Welt (1997) ; J. Blake: Vermessung der Welt (2007: 17f.) ; Focus 1993 ; Grees 2002: 21f. ;
Active as cartographer, cosmographer, since 1552, active in Duisburg, a major citiy in the Duchy of Cleves, where he opened a cartographic workshop, also active as surveyor & mathematics teacher at the academic college of Duisburg.
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