| 单词 | Mercator |
| 例句 | I act affronted, but since I’m half eyeing the Mercator girl and half looking into the garden for Helene, Grandfather isn’t convinced. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z By eighth bell, the mansion is packed with the finest Illustrian families, along with a few of the wealthiest Mercators. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z A half hour later, dusk drops over the city of Serra, and I am following the Tribesman swiftly through the Mercator Quarter, home to the wealthiest members of the Martial merchant class. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z There's a Mercator girl in a tantalizingly flimsy dress eyeing me from the door leading to the crowded garden. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Of how fighters raided the caravans of the Martial merchant class, the Mercators, and assassinated members of their upper class, the Illustrians. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z At the center of Mercator’s North Pole stood a magnetic mountain that pulled all compass needles northward; whirling around the mass of gray rock was a warm sea ringed by a thick circle of ice. ‘Icebound’ Takes Us Back to the Arctic, in All Its Terror and Splendor 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Mercator's projection, for instance, far from serving as a monument to the glories of European civilisation, was in fact an expression of the very opposite: a deep despair at the savagery of its hatreds. A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton – review 2012-08-24T07:00:02Z Mercator based his map on a theory proposed 1,800 years earlier by Pytheas, the first Greek to breach the Strait of Gibraltar and check out the Atlantic for himself. ‘Icebound’ Takes Us Back to the Arctic, in All Its Terror and Splendor 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Elsewhere in this surprisingly gripping programme Barber charts the fortunes of Gerard Mercator, who had the arguably overly ambitious plan to produce six atlases that contained all the knowledge of the world, ever. The Beauty of Maps 2010-06-09T07:00:00Z Elsewhere in this surprisingly gripping programme Barber charts the fortunes of Gerard Mercator, who held the arguably overly ambitious plan to produce six atlases that contained all the knowledge of the world, ever. The Beauty of Maps 2010-04-19T05:45:00Z Elsewhere, Barber charts the fortunes of Gerard Mercator, who had the arguably overly ambitious plan to produce six atlases that contained all the knowledge of the world. Three in a bed 2010-04-20T23:05:00Z Slight shame it’s Mercator projection even though @GuardianUpside write about its inaccuracies!? What's the upside of winter? The bright side to all those dark months 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z In 1606, Gerard Mercator, arguably the most famous cartographer of his time or any other, published a top-down map of the earth as he understood it. ‘Icebound’ Takes Us Back to the Arctic, in All Its Terror and Splendor 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z As a handful of supporters watched, the number — which the artists said was based on calculations by the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change in Berlin — began ticking down, second by second. A New York Clock That Told Time Now Tells the Time Remaining 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z "It's about Chinese state-owned enterprises going abroad... to help facilitate the flow of resources that China needs," said Jacob Gunter, a senior analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies. Belt and Road Initiative: Is China's trillion-dollar gamble to transform the world working? 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z “They need to keep the Europeans as far away from the Americans as possible,” said Mikko Huotari, executive director of the Mercator Institute for China Studies, of the Chinese delegation’s goal this week. Germany and China Try to Reset Relations for a Changed World 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Mikko Huotari of the Mercator Institute for China Studies said he expected a "significantly more critical language on the challenge that China poses internationally" in the strategy. Germany to unveil first-ever National Security Strategy 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z But Chinese battery firms have announced investments in Europe worth $17.5 billion since 2018, according to the Mercator Institute for China Studies and the Rhodium Group. As U.S. Races Ahead, Europe Frets About Battery Factory Subsidies 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z “It’s very consistent with what Xi Jinping has been rolling out over the past 10 years,” said Max Zenglein, chief economist at the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin. To Rein in China’s Banks, Xi Uses Familiar Playbook 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z “China’s policymakers are seeking to systematically address and integrate every step of the innovation process,” the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin wrote in a research paper. Why China Didn’t Invent ChatGPT 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z “The promise was if you educate yourself, you will get a good-paying job. That is no longer materializing,” said Max Zenglein, chief economist at the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin. Even as China Eases Covid Rules, Some Youths Still Fear a Grim Future 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z Another is Mercator Partners, which runs a low-net decarbonisation long/short global strategy, buying firms in the new energy supply chain while short-selling companies with outmoded business models or growing carbon policy liabilities. Asia's hedge fund seeders go for 'uncorrelated' strategies 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z His merchant bank, Mercator, was a critical go-between for Western energy companies eager to exploit Kazakhstan’s vast, largely untapped oil fields. James Giffen, Who Was Embroiled in ‘Kazakhgate,’ Dies at 81 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z "This really filters down into things that we see in society...women's rights, birth rates, gender pay gap and things like domestic abuse," said Valarie Tan, an analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies. For China's women, this week's Congress is unlikely to mean progress 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z “In the United States, you have people with plenty of money to spend and not enough stuff to buy,” said Jacob Gunter, a senior analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies. What inflation? China’s peppercorn purveyors are feeling the heat. 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z An analyst with the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin, Brussee frequently scours the Chinese internet for data. As China shuts itself off from the world, internet access gets harder too 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z “It’s becoming quite clear that Beijing is scrambling a little bit, they’re trying to square the circle,” said Helena Legarda, a senior analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Germany. China struggles to navigate its partnership with Russia following Ukraine invasion 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Mercator was also fined $32,000 for giving two snowmobiles to a top Kazakh official. James Giffen, Who Was Embroiled in ‘Kazakhgate,’ Dies at 81 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Callaghan led the study alongside a team of researchers from Mercator, nonprofit research group Climate Analytics and other research institutes in Europe and the U.S. Climate Studies Have Focused on Rich Countries 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z “It has become a reasonable position to advocate for less space for cars,” said Felix Creutzig, a transportation specialist at the Mercator Research Center in Berlin. Trams, Cable Cars, Electric Ferries: How Cities Are Rethinking Transit 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Even the colonial-era Mercator projection used to generate the familiar world map is being upended. These Alternative Economies Are Inspirations for a Sustainable World 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z The Mercator Institute for China Studies, which is the largest European think tank focused on China, and Newcastle University anthropologist Joanne Smith Finley were targeted by Beijing last week. China’s propaganda machine kicks into high gear over Xinjiang criticism 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z Some projections, such as Mercator, aim to excel at one of these concerns, which aggravates other errors. Can This New Map Fix Our Distorted Views of the World? 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z When I was 14, I made a painted globe of Mars based on a flat Mercator Mars map by the astronomer E. M. Antoniadi. The Most Accurate Flat Map of Earth Yet 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Europe’s plans for “digital sovereignty” are still vague, said Rebecca Arcesati, an analyst with the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin. Europe Feels the Squeeze as Tech Competition Heats Up Between U.S. and China 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Chinese companies already have a major presence in Europe after investing more than 160 billion euros, or $180 billion, since 2000, according to research by Rhodium and the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin. Europe Takes Steps to Block Chinese Bargain Hunters 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Many people still view Mexico through the distorted lens of the Mercator projection maps and may not appreciate fully the difficulty of the task for the Mexican government. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: More sexist criticism of the U.S. women’s national soccer team 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z “No one wants to do this alone,” said Mikko Huotari, deputy director of the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin. With Pressure and Persuasion, China Deflects Criticism of Its Camps for Muslims 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z These are illustrated by the famous Mercator projection, the base template for Google maps. The Most Accurate Flat Map of Earth Yet 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z “It’s definitely a disincentive,” Mr. Riley at Mercator said. Those Credit Card Bonuses May Be Taxable 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z About one-third of smartphone owners who access mobile wallets use those downloaded from specific retailers, says Karen Augustine, a manager of primary data services at Mercator Advisory Group, a payments and consulting research firm. With mobile pay, you can go without a wallet at checkout 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z “We took full advantage of the Mercator route and in doing so, it was like a nine hours or something flight,” he said. Seahawks’ Dickson wants to turn heads in England 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z On a Mercator map, Greenland appears larger than Africa, when in reality, Africa is 14 times larger. Google Maps now depicts the Earth as a globe 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z His route looks bent on a Mercator map—a flexion error. The Most Accurate Flat Map of Earth Yet 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z But a value of 1 cent per point is common, said Brian Riley, director of the credit advisory service at Mercator Advisory Group. Those Credit Card Bonuses May Be Taxable 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z In 1585, it was in Duisburg that Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator published a book of maps of European countries – the first ever “atlas” to carry that name. Germany's 'China City': how Duisburg became Xi Jinping's gateway to Europe 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z It occupies the zone where Mercator’s and other projections dissolve into absurdity, with Svalbard becoming either nonsensically big or weirdly distorted, sometimes getting left out altogether. Naked geology, dazzling light… my journey into the Arctic 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z By accommodating China’s political demands, even partially, airlines are abetting a false depiction of U.S. policy on Taiwan and playing into China’s game, said Samantha Hoffman, visiting fellow at the Mercator Institute for China Studies. Opinion | China takes its political censorship global 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Hoffman is a visiting academic fellow at the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin. China’s social credit system ‘could interfere in other nations’ sovereignty’ 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z A report last year from the Mercator Institute for China Studies, a German think-tank, identified South Korea as the country most exposed to the resulting Chinese competition. Why South Korea is growing wary of China 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Brian Riley, a credit card industry consultant at Mercator Advisory Group, said the 4 percent on dining should be attractive to customers. Uber rides into credit card market with no-fee card 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z "Most important for the moment is that there is a representation of balance," said Matthias Stepan, who researches Chinese public policy at the Mercator Institute for Chinese Studies in Berlin. China unveils new leadership with no clear successor to Xi Jinping – LA Times 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z Although not enough, it's something to build on, says Sabine Fuss, who develops models of climate change and natural resources at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change in Berlin. Emissions: We have the technology : Nature : Nature Research 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z “The big story here is the French willingness to let this happen,” said Mikko Huotari, director of the international relations program at the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin. Siemens and Alstom Form European Train Giant to Beat Chinese Competition 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z According to the Mercator tally, local targets add up to roughly five times as much. China sets its sights on dominating sunrise industries 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z The number of Chinese tourists to Germany each year topped two million in 2014, according to the Mercator Institute for China Studies, a research foundation based in Berlin. Nazi Salutes Land Chinese Tourists in Hot Water in Germany 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z The plan also offers the country’s vast state-owned enterprises a global testing ground, according to Jan Gaspers at the Mercator Institute for China Studies, based in Berlin. As U.S. retreats in Asia-Pacific, China fills the void with an ambitious global plan 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z But Mercator’s map also included a less obvious feature: the mountain, the maelstrom, and the North Pole were all situated in an open, ice-free sea. Literature’s Arctic Obsession 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Sarah Grotta of research and consulting firm Mercator Advisory Group said banks didn’t do a great job of explaining that ClearXchange would allow customers to send money to customers of other banks. As millennials 'Venmo' each other money, banks fight back with their own mobile apps 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Gerardus Mercator, a renowned Flemish cartographer, devised his map in 1569, principally to aid navigation along colonial trade routes by drawing straight lines across the oceans. Boston public schools map switch aims to amend 500 years of distortion 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z The world maps you probably remember from school are Mercator projections, where Greenland appears larger than Africa – a continent 14 times the island’s size – in order to preserve the accuracy of angles. Faultlines, black holes and glaciers: mapping uncharted territories 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z More than $650 billion is expected to be spent on gift cards and other prepaid cards this year, according to the consulting firm Mercator Advisory Group. Gift card fraud: Couple discovers that $1,000 has disappeared 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Of the three polar features on Mercator’s sixteenth-century map—the mountain, the maelstrom, and the open polar sea—only the lodestone mountain turned out to be a myth. Literature’s Arctic Obsession 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z "It will be difficult, but there are also opportunities," said Sabine Fuss, a delegate at the Geneva meeting from the Mercator Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change. Scientists to probe ways of meeting tough global warming goal 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z The Mercator projection is a symbolic representation that put Europe at the center of the world. Boston public schools map switch aims to amend 500 years of distortion 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Ben Jackson, a prepaid industry analyst at Mercator Advisory Group, said outages are no more common among prepaid debit card companies than among banks or credit card issuers. Customers say Walmart-brand prepaid debit cards aren't working, cutting off access to funds 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z These meant nothing to the first European explorers to see them, just as Mercator projections meant nothing to the Marshallese. The Secrets of the Wave Pilots 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z That account eventually made it into the hands of the sixteenth-century cartographer Gerardus Mercator, he of the famous splayed-out map of the world. Literature’s Arctic Obsession 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z A note from Neil Freeman: When I say the maps are in the same scale, each is drawn in a custom Transverse Mercator map projection centred on each system. Can you identify the world cities from their 'naked' metro maps? 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z “The Mercator projection showed the spread and power of Christianity and is standard,” she said. Boston public schools map switch aims to amend 500 years of distortion 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z First, Ethan calls up a Mercator projection map of the world, then photos of dozens of secret agents, then a close-up on a particular agent. The craziest scene in the fifth ‘Mission’ isn’t Tom Cruise on side of an airplane 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z This animation shows how scanned plates from the original version of Paullin's atlas were "warped" onto the Mercator projection used by most web maps. “Steampunk” Infographics Beautifully Combine Past and Present 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z “I think they try to capture four basic contradictions that they see presently,” Sebastian Heilmann, the director of the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin, said in a telephone interview. The Evolution of Xi Jinping's 'Four Comprehensives' 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Warburg Pincus, a private equity firm managing about $37 billion in assets, made its first investment in the Middle East in April, agreeing to acquire a controlling stake in Mercator, a Dubai aviation software company. Private Equity Discovers Deals in the Middle East 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Alaska looks bigger than Mexico and Germany is in the middle of the picture, not to the north – because Mercator moved the equator. Boston public schools map switch aims to amend 500 years of distortion 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z “This is likely a very small percentage of all new card applications. This is a strategy that some consumers play, but it’s not widespread,” said Michael Misasi, senior analyst at the Mercator Advisory Group. Why Banks Don't Stop Savvy Travelers Who Flip Credit Cards 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z The abuse of MoneyPak, a perfectly legal prepaid card, has created a problem for its seller, Green Dot, the largest provider of reloadable prepaid debit cards, according to Mercator. Popular Prepaid Money Card Opens Path to Fraud Schemes 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z In April the bank agreed to lend $820 million to Agrokor, a Croatian company, for the acquisition of Slovenia’s Mercator, a deal that will create the top food retailer in the Balkans. Russia Uses Sberbank to Flex Its Financial Muscle 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z The share of European businesses that wants to expand in China dropped to 57 percent this year from 86 percent a year earlier, according to the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin. Merkel Heads to China to Keep Alive ‘Golden Decade’ of Deals 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z The result goes a long way to rewriting the historical and socio-political message of the Mercator map, which exaggerates the size of imperialist powers. Boston public schools map switch aims to amend 500 years of distortion 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Mercator estimates that it costs a bank about $250 to acquire new credit card customers, with about $100 going to buying the bonus airline miles and the rest covering marketing and operational expenses. Why Banks Don't Stop Savvy Travelers Who Flip Credit Cards 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z But Sebastian Heilmann, director of the new Mercator Institute on Chinese Studies in Berlin, believes the honeymoon period between Germany and China is at an end. Economic 'honeymoon' between Germany and China fades 2014-03-27T22:05:59Z They are both Mercator projections of Mars which will be familiar from Earth maps that also pull the 360-degree globe on to a flat surface. Europe begins Mars site selection 2014-03-27T01:37:22Z One of the most successful beauty camps is headed by Jonas Gaffud, who is CEO of a large modelling agency, Mercator. How to make a beauty queen 2014-02-02T22:00:44Z For almost 500 years, the Mercator projection has been the norm for maps of the world, ubiquitous in atlases, pinned on peeling school walls. Boston public schools map switch aims to amend 500 years of distortion 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Another milestone could be the sale of leading local retailer Mercator to Croatian rival Agrokor. Slovenia struggles to let go of treasured state companies 2014-01-29T06:55:00Z During the Renaissance, Gerard Mercator's famous projection stretched the poles to infinity because the commercial world of the time had no interest in them, and was trading east to west, not north to south. Google, there's no such thing as 'the perfect map' 2013-05-16T13:11:36Z Governments have also repeatedly rejected foreign bids to buy state-owned firms, most recently killing the sale of leading grocery chain Mercator to a Croatian rival in 2011. Insight: How eurozone backwater Slovenia became its latest liability 2013-04-21T14:35:30Z According to Dmitry Oreshkin, an independent political analyst and founder of the Mercator Analyst Group, deals in Iraq look like an expensive foreign policy move for Russia. Russia’s Mideast Power Ploy 2012-10-20T08:45:00Z Consulting firm Mercator Advisory Group estimates that the market for prepaid debit cards may reach $150 billion this year. Wal-Mart going head-to-head with banks with prepaid American Express card 2012-10-09T00:35:00Z In 2009, consumers held roughly $29 billion on prepaid cards, according to the Mercator Advisory Group, a payments industry research group. Wal-Mart to Offer Prepaid Card 2012-10-08T22:08:40Z Last year, the previous centre-left government blocked the sale of Slovenia's largest food retailer Mercator to its Croatian rival Agrokor, saying the deal would hurt the Slovenian food industry and the economy as a whole. Insight: Slovenia rues bank mismanagement as bailout talk grows 2012-07-26T07:02:19Z It is a similar pride to an earlier generation seeing half the world in red on Mercator's atlas projection, or Time magazine putting "London: The Swinging City" on its cover in 1966. London 2012 Olympics: what price fleeting joy? For Britons, it's £9bn 2012-07-24T19:15:01Z He crossed the cabin to consult a Mercator's chart of the world, on which were pinned British, American, and Japanese flags recording the latest-known positions of the rival airmen. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z In an advertisement in The Independent Journal or the General Advertiser of May 25, 1785, he explained that the device was for use in the construction of globular maps and Mercator charts. Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers 2012-03-15T02:00:31.610Z But to say the Mercator is mine is false. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 105, November 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-03-09T03:00:19.037Z In Mercator's atlas of 1623 is a general map of America, which calls all the territory north and south of Canada New France. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Item, two globes of Mercator’s best making: on the celestial sphere Dee, with his own hand, had set down divers comets, their places and motions, according to his individual observation. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z Let me see"--he referred to the large Mercator map--"according to the latest reports, Commodore Nye's 'Eagle' is at Khartoum. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z Still, 43 percent of the cards are never reloaded or are reloaded only once, according to Mercator. Your Money: Suze Orman to Offer Her Own Prepaid Debit Card 2012-01-09T05:01:12Z Defoe evidently means only to deny that he was the originator and proprietor of the Mercator, not that he was not the principal writer in it. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 105, November 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-03-09T03:00:19.037Z Some few copies contain an exceedingly rare map, the first on the Mercator projection made in England according to the true principles laid down by Edward Wright. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Item, divers other instruments, as the theorie of the eighth sphere, the ninth and tenth, with an horizon and meridian of copper, made by Mercator specially for Dr. Dee. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z Then it is supposed that in the sixteenth century the famous geographer Mercator prefixed his collection of maps with the picture of Atlas supporting the world. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z They persuade consumers to buy the cards first, in part through their availability in 300,000 locations, including grocery and convenience stores, according to the Mercator Advisory Group. Your Money: Suze Orman to Offer Her Own Prepaid Debit Card 2012-01-09T05:01:12Z The excessive rarity of the Mercator, which Wilson could never obtain, and of which probably very few copies exist, has rendered it the least known of Defoe's publications. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 105, November 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-03-09T03:00:19.037Z Mercator earns as much as 8 percent of revenue from dredging. Mercator Plans to Add More Dredgers as India Expands Ports 2011-10-10T11:48:04Z Mercator's Atlas is another precious manuscript available to download alongside Da Vinci's Arundel Codex. Da Vinci's "Codex" launched on iPad 2011-08-16T13:30:51Z The Greek of the Scholium in question being lost, we depend for our knowledge of its contents on the Latin translation of Marius Mercator, Cyril's contemporary. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z The learned Mercator was renowned for his globes; and mathematical instruments, of a novel construction, were the invention of the scientific Frisias. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z I do not see any copy of the Mercator noticed in the printed catalogue of the British Museum. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 105, November 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-03-09T03:00:19.037Z The earliest of these, so far as I recollect, was that of a certain William Black, Mercator Angliæ, who had died at Angora in the year 1683 A.D. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z The volume was painstakingly compiled by hand in the 16th century by Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator, the man believed to have coined the term "atlas" for a collection of maps. Da Vinci's "Codex" launched on iPad 2011-08-16T13:30:51Z "How we interact with merchants on our mobile devices is changing; there's no question about that," George Peabody, research director at Mercator Advisory Group, said Wednesday. Smartphones step up mobile payment push 2011-05-26T02:03:18Z "Typically, it's a white piece of plastic with magnetic stripe," said David Fish, senior analyst with Mercator Advisory Group. Michaels: Debit card fraud widespread 2011-05-12T01:55:00Z Creston shareholders will get 0.15 of a common share of Mercator and 8 Canadian cents in cash for each share held. UPDATE 1-Mercator to buy Creston Moly in C$195 mln deal 2011-04-12T11:54:21Z Mercator's shares have risen over 42 percent in the same time period. DEALTALK-Canada's copper juniors now prime takeover targets 2011-02-22T16:35:00Z The whole work was lost for about five centuries, but was discovered, at least parts of it found, by a man named Mercator, in an old abbey of Werden, in the sixteenth century. Stories of Great Men 2011-02-21T03:00:07.643Z Mercator runs the Mineral Park mine and is developing the El Pilar copper project in Mexico. UPDATE 1-Mercator adopts takeover defense as precaution 2011-02-09T22:43:02Z According to a survey by research firm Mercator Advisory Group, 58 percent of debit card issuers offered a rewards program in 2009. Banks allow ads in online checking accounts 2011-01-16T23:05:00Z Brent Watters, an analyst with financial services research firm Mercator, said the charitable gift card sector remains too small to track. Charities turn to gift cards to raise money during Christmas, winter holidays 2010-12-20T22:23:01Z They include Mercator, a supermarket chain, and Gorenje, a maker of electrical appliances, both from Slovenia; Delta, a Serbian retailer; and Agrokor, a Croatian firm in food and retailing. Business in the Balkans: Coming together 2010-11-25T10:47:00Z PayPal may process 12 percent to 14 percent of e-commerce payments by next year, according to Mercator Advisory Group. Credit Card Companies Woo Programmers 2010-11-18T22:00:00Z The Penguin production, fleetly directed by Thomas Caruso, is performed in front of the large Mercator map and old-fashioned railway clock that dominate Joseph J. Egan’s spare stage set. | Westchester: A Tech-Happy Global Race, at the Speed of Jules Verne 2010-08-21T06:57:00Z His company Mercator Corp separately pleaded guilty to a felony charge of violating an anti-corruption law by sending two snowmobiles valued at $16,000 to a senior Kazakh official as a New Years gift. NY man reaches deal in 10-year Kazakh bribery probe 2010-08-06T21:23:00Z An analysis by research firm Mercator Advisory Group put the sector at $69 billion in 2008, the last year for which data were available. States join the fight against proposed limits to credit card fees 2010-06-01T04:00:00Z Until now, print media haven't been able to find a business model to sell content online, says George Peabody, of Mercator Advisory Group, a payments and banking consulting firm. PayPal leads the way for processing small-denomination purchases 2010-04-11T04:00:00Z In 1790 he made himself famous by his large chart of the world on Mercator’s projection. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" “Here they are;” and we displayed the three maps we had; a map of the world, the two hemispheres upon the projection of Mercator, and a Chinese empire. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 Largely they seemed to draw their boundary lines with ruler and pencil on a Mercator projection. Black Man's Burden There is a mighty charge against me for being author and publisher of a paper called the 'Mercator.' An Appeal to Honour and Justice, Though It Be of His Worst Enemies. Being A True Account of His Conduct in Public Affairs. This merit he shares with his contemporaries N. Mercator, Sir I. Newton and G.W. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" The map to this volume, which is wanting in the present copy, was the first English map on Mercator's projection. Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge We indicated with our fingers on the map of Mercator, China, Tartary, and Thibet, and all the other countries of the globe. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 Take a Mercator's projection map of the world and draw the trade routes and immigration streams to indicate international solidarities. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College But to say the Mercator was mine, is false; I neither was the author of it, had the property of it, the printing of it, or the profit by it. An Appeal to Honour and Justice, Though It Be of His Worst Enemies. Being A True Account of His Conduct in Public Affairs. Map of the World on Mercator's Projection, showing a portion of the progress of the Total Solar Eclipse Of August 30, 1905, across the surface of the Earth 81 7. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language The corrupt reading Angulos, derived from Isidorus Mercator, appears in the text, and without a marginal correction, in James Merlin's edition of the Councils, Colon. Notes and Queries, Number 195, July 23, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Practically all charts you will use will be called Mercator charts. Lectures in Navigation The difficult problem how to place the exhibits of various countries was settled by awarding the choice places in an arrangement according to Mercator's projection of the map of the world. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Also, most of those things in the Mercator, for which I had such usage, were such as I was not the author of. An Appeal to Honour and Justice, Though It Be of His Worst Enemies. Being A True Account of His Conduct in Public Affairs. It has not been possible to show the tracks of totality of these two early visitations on account of the distortion of the polar regions consequent on the fiction of Mercator's Projection. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language If oblique, it is solved by middle latitude, or Mercator sailing. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. You do not have to actually construct such a chart, as the Government has for sale blank Mercator charts for every parallel of latitude in which they can be used. Lectures in Navigation Marius Mercator, a friend and supporter of Augustine, was one of the most determined opponents of Pelagianism, as also of Nestorianism. A Source Book for Ancient Church History It is taken from a Latin edition of an ancient description of Florida, originally in the English, but translated into the Latin by the geographer, Mercator. History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Marius Mercator informs us, that he was no sooner placed in the episcopal chair, but he began to persecute, with great fury, the Arians, Macedonians, Manichees, and Quartodecimans, whom he banished out of his diocese. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March To convert this into difference of longitude, parallel, middle latitude, or Mercator's sailing is needed, depending on circumstances. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Spend the rest of the period in getting times from the N. A., getting true altitudes from observed altitudes, working examples in Mercator sailing, etc. Lectures in Navigation On the opposite wall hung a map of the world on Mercator's Projection, and from a spot in Northern Labrador red lines radiated in all directions, which formed great curved loops, returning to the starting-point. The Man Who Rocked the Earth Postal card from W. H. Yates, in relation to the Mercator Projection. International Conference Held at Washington for the Purpose of Fixing a Prime Meridian and a Universal Day. October, 1884. Protocols of the Proceedings His book Against the twelve Anthematisms of St. Cyril, he tacitly recalled by his condemnation of Nestorius; also his Pentalogus on the same subject, which is now lost, except some fragments preserved by Marius Mercator. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March A method of converting departure in difference of longitude, and vice versâ, by using the middle latitude instead of the meridional parts, as in Mercator's sailing. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The Hydrographic Office publishes blank Mercator charts for all latitudes in which they can be used for plotting your position. Lectures in Navigation On the plain E. of Mercator is a remarkable little crater standing on a light area, and, just under the wall, a dusky pit connected with it by a rill-like marking. The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features Mercator, the celebrated geographer, found such delight in the ceaseless progression of his studies, that he would never willingly quit his maps to take the necessary refreshments of life. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 I felt the force of this pointed reply: and was resolved never again to ask an Ecclesiastic to part with a black-letter volume, even though it should be printed by "my old friend Guido Mercator." A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Five years afterwards he went into the Low Countries, for the purpose of conversing with Frisius, Mercator, and others. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 It makes no difference what longitude you are in for, on a Mercator chart, meridians of longitude are all marked parallel. Lectures in Navigation The floor of Mercator is much lighter than that of Campanus, and appears to be devoid of detail. The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features At last, however, in May, 1713, when popular excitement and hot Parliamentary debates were expected on the Commercial Treaty with France, an exclusively trading paper was established, entitled Mercator. Daniel Defoe Covert wished his blubber piled in our coal bunkers; the artist sketched him, and the draughtsman thought of putting him on a Mercator's projection. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life At all events, the thing seemed feasible enough, notwithstanding old Jarl's superstitious reverence for nautical instruments, and the philosophical objections which might have been urged by a pedantic disciple of Mercator. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I For instance, if your Mercator chart shows parallels of latitude from 30� to 40� that chart must be used when you are in one of those latitudes. Lectures in Navigation Mercator, in his maps and charts, chose Corvo, one of the Azores, for his first meridian, because at that time it was the line of no variation of the compass. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson To prove that the balance of trade, in spite of a prevailing impression to the contrary, not only might be, but had been, on the side of England, was the chief purpose of Mercator. Daniel Defoe The use of quadrants, telescopes, and maps on Mercator's projection all began in the reign of Elizabeth, as did many other inventions, adaptations, handy wrinkles, and vital changes in strategy and tactics. Elizabethan Sea Dogs One map, larger than any save the Mercator, showed the Arabian Peninsula. The Flying Legion In very high latitudes and near the North pole, the Mercator chart is worthless. Lectures in Navigation But modern geography may most probably be dated from the time of Mercator: he published an edition of Ptolemy, in which he pointed out the imperfection of the system of the ancients. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson During the dissensions, in the last days of the Queen which broke up the Tory Ministry, Mercator was dropped. Daniel Defoe A Mercator's projection lay thumb-tacked on a table, and the last position of the schooner was indicated by a pin sticking in the map. The Cruise of the Dry Dock The Atlas was a splendid work, containing maps of every part of the world, and many charts laid out on Mercator’s Projection. The Mysterious Island Say distance is 1600 miles measured by dividers or secured by Mercator Sailing Method. Lectures in Navigation The seventeenth century continued the impulse which was given to the science of geography by Mercator. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson At the end of his volume Mr. Lowell gives a large chart of Mars on Mercator's projection, showing the canals and other features seen during the opposition of 1905. Is Mars habitable? A critical examination of Professor Percival Lowell's book "Mars and its canals," with an alternative explanation This error was copied by some later cartographers, including Mercator, until about 1740, when “Viticos” disappeared from all maps of Peru. Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru The first published map which refers to the Verrazzano discoveries, that of Mercator in 1569, makes no reference to the Verrazano map, and does not recognize it in any manner. The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America Chart Projections The earth is projected, so to speak, upon a chart in three different ways - the Mercator Projection, the Polyconic Projection and the Gnomonic Projection. Lectures in Navigation A method of this kind had been obscurely pointed at by Ptolemy; but the first map on this plan was made by Mercator, about the year 1550. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson Mr. Nicholas Mercator, astronomer, told me that he had tried it with effect. Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects "Well, look," said the Major, displaying an English planisphere on the plan of Mercator's Chart, and presenting the appearance of a terrestrial globe. In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant It is evident, therefore, that Mercator had the Ramusio version before him, and not the Verrazano map, as his authority on the subject. The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America The Mercator Projection You already know something about the Mercator Projection and a Mercator chart. Lectures in Navigation If it does, old man, we will take a month in September and explore the Mercator property. When a Man Marries Also, one of the examples of Mercator sailing to be done by both the Inspection and Logarithmic method. Lectures in Navigation On the whole, however, the Mercator chart answers the mariner's needs so far as all practical purposes are concerned. Lectures in Navigation Note to Instructor: Spend rest of period in familiarizing pupils with laying down runs and intersecting lines of position on Mercator plotting charts. Lectures in Navigation |
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