mercator

• 专有名词，指生活于德国、以发明用于世界地图的墨卡托投影而闻名的佛兰德斯地理学家和制图学家。也指以其命名的墨卡托投影。

A proper noun referring to a Flemish geographer and cartographer who lived in Germany and is known for inventing the Mercator projection of maps of the globe.

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1. Flemish cartographerC1formal

   A 16th-century Flemish geographer and cartographer known for creating the Mercator projection, a map projection that represents rhumb lines as straight lines, aiding navigation.

   佛兰芒制图学家

   • Mercator's world map from 1569 revolutionized maritime navigation.
   • The University of Leuven educated many geographers, including Mercator.
   • Historians study Mercator's work to understand early modern cartography.

2. B2formaltechnical

   A cylindrical map projection developed by Gerardus Mercator, where lines of longitude and latitude are represented as straight lines, preserving angles but distorting area at high latitudes.

   墨卡托投影

   • The Mercator projection is commonly used for nautical charts.
   • Google Maps uses the Web Mercator projection for its tiles.
   • One drawback of the Mercator projection is the distortion of Greenland's size.