Author:Nicholas Mercator
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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)
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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