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The answer MERCATOR has 20 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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The word MERCATOR is NOT valid in any word game. (Sorry, you cannot play MERCATOR in Scrabble, Words With Friends etc)
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Definitions of mercator in various dictionaries:
noun - Flemish geographer who lived in Germany
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Possible Jeopardy Clues |
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In a world that cried out for a... map projection... only this Flemish cartographer would heed the call |
A depiction of the giant god Atlas holding up the world appeared on the front of his 16th century book of maps |
In the late 16th Century, this Flemish cartographer "projected" the constellations onto star globes |
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows a rectangular world map on the monitor.) Because areas far from the equator are enlarged, Greenland is bigger than South America in the 16th century system of projection named for this man |
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Greenland is much smaller than South America, but scale is distorted on this type of map named for a 16th century Fleming, so the farther away from the equator you get, the larger the distortion |
Mercator might refer to |
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Mercator (Latin for "merchant") may refer to:* |