He also gave his name to the standard way in which world maps were represented (the Mercator projection).
In the second set, Mercator took first lead again and, with great team work inspired by Richard Grimes, were sneaking ahead.
Delta from Serbia, Mercator from Slovenia and Konzum from Croatia all run supermarkets and have been opening new shops in each other's backyards.
"Consumers have clearly said this is a no-go, " said Patricia Hewitt, who specializes in debit cards at Mercator Advisory Group Inc. in Maynard, Mass.
More increases are looming as card issuers respond to the new penalty-fee limits, says Ken Paterson, vice president of research at Mercator Advisory Group.
Mercator took an early lead but, with some great serving from Karen Battle and Clare Guilbert, Rothschild came back to win the opening set 25-22.
Tess Hinshaw was in sparkling form as Rothschild overcame Mercator 2-0.
The Slovene retail chain Mercator bought many stores in ex-Yugoslav states, expecting the standard of living to rise as their countries got closer to EU membership.
Still, prepaid debit cards targeted at teens haven't broadly caught on, says Tim Sloane, a vice president with Mercator Advisory Group, which researches the prepaid market.
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Mercator's solution remains a boon to sailors to this day, even as it massively distorts the relative sizes of land masses such as Africa and Greenland.
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Cosmography is a term also associated with the Flemish cartographer, Mercator, who published his own atlas that included corrected versions of the maps first produced by Ptolemy.
Cumulatively, these resulted in the famous projection map of Gerardus Mercator in 1569, a plan of the world that still forms the basis of schoolroom teaching and Google Maps.
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