Author:Nicholas Mercator
German mathematician, also known by his Germanic name Kauffmann. Fellow of the Royal Society.
Nicholas Mercator
Works edit
- Cosmographia, sive, Descriptio coeli et terræ in circulos, quâ fundamentum sternitur sequentibus ordinè Trigonometriæ sphæricorum logarithmicæ, Astronomiæ sphæricæ, Geographiæe, Histiodromiæ, Gnonomicæ. (1651)
- Hypothesis astronomica nova, et consensus eius cum observationibus (1664)
- Logarithmo-technia (1668)
- Institutionum astronomicarum (1676)
Philosophical Transactions edit
- "Certain problems touching some points of navigation" in Philosophical Transactions, 1, pp. 215–218
- "Some Illustration of the Logarithmotechnia of M. Mercator, who communicated it to the Publisher" in Philosophical Transactions, 3, pp. 759–764
- "Some considerations … method of Cassini" in Philosophical Transactions, 5, pp. 1168–1175
Anonymous edit
- Euclidis Elementa geometrica novo ordine ac methodo fere demonstrata: una cum N. Mercatoris in Geometriam Introductione brevi, qua magnitudinum ortus ex geminis principiis et ortarum affectiones ex ipsa genesi derivantur. (1676)
- Attributed to Mercator in, for example, Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary, vol. 2 (1815) p. 42
Works about Mercator edit
- Nicholas Mercator in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, D T Whiteside, New York (1970-1990)
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