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Mercator Fellow
__NOTOC__ Mercator (Latin for "merchant") often refers to the Mercator projection, a cartographic projection named after its inventor, Gerardus Mercator. Mercator may refer to: People * Marius Mercator (c. 390–451), a Catholic ecclesiastical writer * Arnold Mercator, a 16th-century cartographer * Gerardus Mercator, a 16th-century cartographer ** Mercator 1569 world map ** Mercator projection * Rumold Mercator, a 16th-century cartographer * Nicholas Mercator, a 17th-century mathematician ** Mercator series, a representation of the natural logarithm Companies and universities * Mercator (retail), a Slovenian supermarket chain * Mercator-S, a retail company in Serbia, part of Agrokor Group * Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Mercator Limited, a shipping company in India * Mercator Corporation, a consulting firm and investment bank formed by James Giffen, involved with Kazakhgate Vehicles * ''Mercator'' (ship), a barquentine museum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. Through the expansion of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in the Italian Peninsula and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. It has greatly influenced many languages, Latin influence in English, including English, having contributed List of Latin words with English derivatives, many words to the English lexicon, particularly after the Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England, Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest. Latin Root (linguistics), roots appear frequently in the technical vocabulary used by fields such as theology, List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names, the sciences, List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes, medicine, and List of Latin legal terms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercator (ship)
''Mercator'' is a steel-hulled barquentine built in 1932 as a training ship for the Belgian merchant fleet. She was named after Gerardus Mercator (1512–1594), a Belgian cartographer. She was designed by G.L. Watson & Co. and built in Leith, Scotland and launched in 1932. Besides being a training ship, she was also used, mainly before World War II, for scientific observations, or as ambassador for Belgium on world fairs and in sailing events. In 1961, she became a floating museum, first in Antwerp and, from 1964, in the marina of Ostend, just in front of the city hall. As of 2019, she remains open to visitors. Construction ''Mercator'' was launched in 1932 as a steel-hulled barquentine, with composite rigging. The foremast carries square sails, the main mast and the mizzen mast are rigged with fore and aft-sails. Usually the Mercator carried 15 sails with a total surface of about . With a fair wind she could easily make 13 knots. History ''Mercator'' made her seventh cruis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marchant
Marchant is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adio Marchant (born 1987), English singer and songwriter known professionally as Bipolar Sunshine * Alison Marchant, Australian politician * Cecil Marchant (1895–1965), English WW1 military pilot * Chesten Marchant (died 1676), last monoglot Cornish speaker * David R. Marchant, glacial geologist * Edward Dalton Marchant (1806–1887), American artist * George Marchant (1857–1941), Australian soft-drink manufacturer and philanthropist * Henry Marchant (1741–1796), American lawyer and delegate to the Continental Congress (1777 to 1779) * Sir Herbert Stanley Marchant, 20th Century British diplomat and writer * Jeremy Marchant Forde (born 1966), English biologist * John Le Marchant (British Army officer, born 1766) (1766–1812), English major-general * Sir John Le Marchant (British Army officer, born 1803) (1803–1874), English general and Governor of Newfoundland * Julio Marchant (born 1980), Argentine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koffman
Koffman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Elliot Koffman Elliot Bruce Koffman (born 7 May 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a noted computer scientist and educationist. He is the author of numerous widely used introductory textbooks for more than 10 different programming languages, including Ada, BASIC ... (born 1942), computer scientist and educationist * Laura Koffman (born ''Laura Bonarrigo'' in 1964), American actress * Moe Koffman (1928–2001), Canadian jazz saxophonist and flautist See also * Kofman {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kofman
Kofman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Abram Kofman, (1865–1940), Russian Esperanto poet * Bereck Kofman (1900–1943), French rabbi * Boaz Kofman (born 1935), Israeli footballer * Celina Kofman (1924–2020), Argentine human rights activist * Galina Kofman, American computer scientist * Jeffrey Kofman (born 1959), Canadian television journalist * Michael Kofman, American military analyst * Roman Kofman (born 1936), Ukrainian composer and conductor * Sarah Kofman (1934–1994), French philosopher See also * Kaufmann, surname * Koffman Koffman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Elliot Koffman Elliot Bruce Koffman (born 7 May 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a noted computer scientist and educationist. He is the author of numerous widely used introductory t ..., surname {{surname, Kofman Surnames of Jewish origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaufmann
Kaufmann is a surname with many variants such as Kauffmann, Kaufman, and Kauffman. In German, the name means ''merchant''. It is the cognate of the English '' Chapman'' (which had a similar meaning in the Middle Ages, though it disappeared from modern English). ''Kaufmann'' may refer to: Kaufmann * Alexander Kaufmann (1817–1893), German poet and folklorist, brother of Leopold * Aloys P. Kaufmann (1902–1984), Mayor of St. Louis, Missouri * Andrea Kaufmann (born 1969), Austrian politician * Andreas Kaufmann (born 1973), German footballer * Andy Kaufmann (born 1967), American basketball player * Arthur Kaufmann (1872–1938), Austrian attorney, philosopher and chess master * Arthur Kaufmann (artist) (1888–1971), German avant-garde painter * Bobby Kaufmann (born 1985), American politician * Carl Kaufmann (1936–2008), West German sprint runner * Caymen Alexander Kaufmann (born 2004), American Media Man * Christian Kaufmann (alpine guide) (1872–1939), Swiss m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercator (crater)
Mercator is a lunar impact crater that is located on the southwestern edge of Mare Nubium, in the southwest part of the Moon. It was named after 16th-century Southern Dutch cartographer Gerardus Mercator. It is located to the southeast of the crater Campanus, and the two are separated by a narrow, winding valley. The Rupes Mercator fault is tangential with the northeastern outer rim of Mercator. The eastern edge of Palus Epidemiarum reaches the west rim of Mercator, and a rille from the Rimae Ramsden reaches the western rim at the site of the craterlet Mercator C. The rim of Mercator is only somewhat eroded, and several tiny craters lie on the west and eastern rims. The interior floor has been flooded by lava in the past, leaving a relatively smooth and featureless surface. Mercator is a crater of Nectarian age. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perspective (P-MODEL Album)
''Perspective'' is P-Model's fourth album. Overview Perspective has a tense atmosphere, a continuation of the darker style exhibited on ''Potpourri'', and the arguably the heaviest of any P-Model outing. Bandleader Susumu Hirasawa shouts his vocals to the backdrop of loud drums and bass, instruments randomly cut in and out, guitar parts are sinister. The compositions are simple and lyrics abstract. Hirasawa focused on sound, insisting on natural reverb instead of digital reverb, and so recording the drum parts on the landing of a stairwell in the building where the album's studio was located. This method led to complications and constant fighting between P-Model and the recording engineer, who insisted on using digital reverb. In the end, it was settled without the engineer and all recording was made Hirasawa's way. Track listing Perspective II ''Perspective II'' is an alternate version of ''Perspective'' originally released exclusively on Compact Cassette, a first for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IBM InfoSphere DataStage
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is an ETL tool and part of the IBM Information Platforms Solutions suite and IBM InfoSphere. It uses a graphical notation to construct data integration solutions and is available in various versions such as the Server Edition, the Enterprise Edition, and the MVS Edition. It uses a client-server architecture. The servers can be deployed in both Unix as well as Windows. It is a powerful data integration tool, frequently used in Data Warehousing projects to prepare the data for the generation of reports. History DataStage originated at VMark Software Inc, a company that developed two notable products: UniVerse database and the DataStage ETL tool. The first VMark ETL prototype was built by Lee Scheffler in the first half of 1996. Peter Weyman was VMark VP of Strategy and identified the ETL market as an opportunity. He appointed Lee Scheffler as the architect and conceived the product brand name "Stage" to signify modularity and component-orientation. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercator (play)
''Mercator'', "The Merchant," is a Latin comedic play for the early Roman theatre by Titus Maccius Plautus. It is based on the Greek play Emporos (the Merchant) by the Greek comedy playwright Philemon. It is believed to be among Plautus's first plays, possibly written around 206 BC. The central conflict involves a father who falls in love with a slave girl who is, unbeknownst to the father, his son's lover. Characters *Charinus—a young merchant *Acanthio—Charinus's slave *Demipho—father of Charinus, also a merchant *Lysimachus—friend of Demipho *Eutychus—friend of Charinus, son of Lysimachus *Pasicompsa—lover and slave of Charinus *Dorippa—wife of Lysimachus *Syra—slave of Lysimachus's family *A cook *Other slaves Plot The play takes place in a street in Athens. In the back wall of the stage there are two houses, that of Demipho and his son Charinus, and that of his friend Lysimachus and his son Eutychus. There is a shrine or altar of Apollo near Lysimachus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercator K55K
The Mercator K55K is a type of pocketknife produced in Germany since around 1867. Mercator knives were primarily produced by Hy. Kauffmann, which was operational from 1856 to 1995. The Mercator K55K knife is still produced in Germany by Mercator, now a division of Otter-Messer. Construction The Mercator K55K is of very simple construction: The handle consists of a folded piece of sheet metal, usually painted black, engraved with the outline of a leaping cat and the legend "K55K", with the second "K" being backwards. The blade has a nail-nick by which it may be grasped to pull it open, and it locks in the open position (a Pocket_knife#Lock-blade knives, lockback knife), after which it may only be closed by depressing a lever at the back of the knife. As of 2013, the knife can be purchased with a stainless steel or carbon steel blade. The Mercator's construction is similar to that of the later appeared French Douk-Douk knife, in terms of the simple folded-metal handle. However, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercator Telescope
The Mercator Telescope is a 1.2 m telescope at the Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos on La Palma. It is operated by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven University), Belgium, in collaboration with the Observatory of the University of Geneva and named after Gerard Mercator, famous cartographer. The telescope was completed in the year 2000 for an exoplanet research program. Features The telescope contains two different measuring devices. First of all, there is the ''MeropeII'' CCD camera. This camera has a size of 2k by 6k pixels Frame Transfer detector originally designed for ESA's canceled Eddington space mission. The filters used together with this camera are according to the so-called ''geneva photometric system''. The second instrument on the Mercator Telescope is the ''HERMES'' echelle spectrograph. It covers a wavelength range between 380 and 875 nm with a spectral resolution of R~85000. The ''P7'' photometer was active from May 2001 until July 2008. The pho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
