1. Flemish geographer who lived in Germany; he invented the Mercator projection of maps of the globe (1512-1594); [syn: Mercator, Gerardus Mercator, Gerhard Kremer]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Gerhard Kremer
n 1: Flemish geographer who lived in Germany; he invented the
Mercator projection of maps of the globe (1512-1594) [syn:
Mercator, Gerardus Mercator, Gerhard Kremer]