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merchant A merchant is a person who trades in goods produced by other people, especially one who trades with foreign countries. Merchants have been known for as long as humans have engaged in trade and commerce. Merchants and merchant networks operated i ...

") often refers to the Mercator projection, a cartographic projection named after its inventor,

Gerardus Mercator Gerardus Mercator (; 5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) was a Flemish people, Flemish geographer, cosmographer and Cartography, cartographer. He is most renowned for creating the Mercator 1569 world map, 1569 world map based on a new Mercator pr ...

. Mercator may refer to:

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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 Augustinian theology during the Pelagian controversy. In 417 or 418, he was in Rome ...

(c. 390–451), a Catholic ecclesiastical writer *

Arnold Mercator Arnold or Arnoldus Mercator (Leuven, 31 August 1537 – Duisburg, 6 July 1587) was a Southern Netherlandish cartographer, mathematician and classical philologist. He was the eldest son of cartographer Gerardus Mercator and a brother of Rumold Merc ...

, a 16th-century cartographer *

, a 16th-century cartographer **

Mercator 1569 world map The Mercator world map of 1569 is titled (Renaissance Latin for "New and more complete representation of the terrestrial globe properly adapted for use in navigation"). The title shows that Gerardus Mercator aimed to present contemporary know ...

** Mercator projection *

Rumold Mercator Rumold Mercator (Leuven, 1541 – Duisburg, 31 December 1599) was a cartographer, son of Gerardus Mercator and brother of Arnold Mercator, both also cartographers. He completed some at the time unfinished projects left after his father's deat ...

, a 16th-century cartographer *

Nicholas Mercator Nicholas (Nikolaus) Mercator (c. 1620, Holstein – 1687, Versailles), also known by his German name Kauffmann, was a 17th-century mathematician. He was born in Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and educated at Rostock and Leyden after which ...

, a 17th-century mathematician **

Mercator series In mathematics, the Mercator series or Newton–Mercator series is the Taylor series for the natural logarithm: :\ln(1+x)=x-\frac+\frac-\frac+\cdots In summation notation, :\ln(1+x)=\sum_^\infty \frac x^n. The series converges to the natural ...

, a representation of the natural logarithm

Companies and universities

Mercator (retail) Poslovni sistem Mercator, d.o.o. (; Latin for 'merchant') is a Slovenian business conglomerate. One of the largest companies in Slovenia by annual revenue, it is the parent company of the Mercator Group of supermarket chains. It is wholly owned b ...

, 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 __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 ecclesiastica ...

, a consulting firm and investment bank formed by James Giffen, involved with

Kazakhgate Kаzаkhgаtе refers to the scandal surrounding James Giffen, an American businessman and former advisor of Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev. Charges US prosecutors accused Giffen of bribery paid to Nazarbayev and Nurlan Balgimbayev, fo ...

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* ''Mercator'' (ship), a barquentine museum ship in Oostende, Belgium *

P4M Mercator The Martin P4M Mercator was a maritime reconnaissance aircraft built by the Glenn L. Martin Company. The Mercator was an unsuccessful contender for a United States Navy requirement for a long-range maritime patrol bomber, with the Lockheed P2V ...

, a reconnaissance aircraft used by the United States Navy during the 1950s * QinetiQ Mercator, a British unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) * and , a number of ships named ''Mercator''

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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 ...

, a Belgian telescope installed in La Palma, Canary Islands *

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 ...

, a type of pocketknife produced in Germany * ''Mercator'' (play), a comedic play by Plautus *

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 E ...

, 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'' *

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 crate ...

, a lunar impact crater on the southwestern edge of Mare Nubium

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