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Gerard Mercator with globe

by Arkady Pugachevsky

90×44 mm, X6, 1992, op. # 22
owner (customer): A. Kubchak

Gerard Mercatjr with globe

Gerardus Mercator (March 5, 1512 – December 2, 1594) was a Flemish cartographer. He was born in Rupelmonde in East Flanders to parents from Gangelt in the Duchy of Jülich. He lived in Duisburg from 1552. He is remembered for the Mercator chart named after him.

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