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IN Prof. Huxley's “Physiography” it is stated that the real name of “Mercator,” of “projection” fame, was Gerard Kauffmann. In a recent number, however, of the popular German journal, the Gartenlaube, there is a woodcut of Mercator, taken from an old sketch, under which is the legend—Gerard Kremer genannt Mercator. Now, as the word Kremer, or Krämer, means a small retail shopkeeper, the Latin pseudonym is equally applicable, although there is an appreciable difference, meaning excluded, between the two German surnames.
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G., J. “Mercator” the Geographer. Nature 18, 588 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018588c0
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