• katkit@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    And Mercator means merchant in Latin. I thought that was because of the projection’s purpose, but turns out that the inventer’s name was actually Mercator, which was a latinisation of his Flemish birthname Kremer (meaning grocer or merchant).

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      13 hours ago

      Now that is a fun-fact! I knew the guy was called Mercator, but didn’t know about the Latin origin, and can definitely see the origin of the name spreading as a misconception.