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Mercator (
Latin for "
merchant
A merchant is a person who trades in commodities produced by other people, especially one who trades with foreign countries. Historically, a merchant is anyone who is involved in business or trade. Merchants have operated for as long as indust ...
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People
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Marius Mercator Marius Mercator (born probably in Northern Africa about 390; died shortly after 451) was a Latin Christian ecclesiastical writer best known for his advocacy of Augustinianism, Augustinian theology during the Pelagianism, Pelagian controversy.
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(c. 390–451), a Catholic ecclesiastical writer
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Arnold Mercator, a 16th-century cartographer
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Gerardus Mercator
Gerardus Mercator (; 5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) was a 16th-century geographer, cosmographer and cartographer from the County of Flanders. He is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented ...
, a 16th-century cartographer
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Mercator 1569 world map
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Mercator projection
The Mercator projection () is a cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It became the standard map projection for navigation because it is unique in representing north as up and sou ...
, a cartographic projection devised by Gerardus Mercator
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Rumold Mercator, a 16th-century cartographer
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Nicholas Mercator, a 17th-century mathematician
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Mercator series, a representation of the natural logarithm
Companies and universities
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Mercator (retail), a Slovenian supermarket chain
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Mercator-S, a retail company in Serbia, part of Agrokor Group
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Mercator School of Management
The Mercator School of Management (MSM) refers to the faculty of business administration of the University of Duisburg-Essen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
The Mercator School of Management is a classic business school located in Duisburg. ...
, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
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Mercator Limited, a shipping company in India
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Mercator Corporation, a consulting firm and investment bank formed by James Giffen, involved with
Kazakhgate
Vehicles
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''Mercator'' (ship), a barquentine museum ship in Oostende, Belgium
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P4M Mercator, a reconnaissance aircraft used by the United States Navy during the 1950s
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QinetiQ Mercator, a British unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
* and , a number of ships named ''Mercator''
Other
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Mercator Telescope, a Belgian telescope installed in La Palma, Canary Islands
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Mercator K55K, a type of pocketknife produced in Germany
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''Mercator'' (play), a comedic play by Plautus
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IBM InfoSphere DataStage, software whose component ''DataStage TX'' was formerly known as ''Mercator'' and is now called ''WebSphere Transformation Extender''
* "Mercator", a song by P-MODEL from the album ''
Perspective II''
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Mercator (crater), a lunar impact crater on the southwestern edge of Mare Nubium
See also
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Kaufmann (German)
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Kofman or
Koffman (Dutch)
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Marchant (French)
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Merchant (surname)
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Latin-language surnames