Gerhard Mercator citáty

Gerhard Mercator bol flámsky kartograf a matematik nemeckého pôvodu. Je po ňom pomenované Mercatorovo zobrazenie. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. marec 1512 – 2. december 1594
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Gerhard Mercator: Citáty v angličtine

“When I saw that Moses’ version of the Genesis of the world did not fit sufficiently in many ways with Aristotle and the rest of the philosophers, I began to have doubts about the truth of all philosophers and started to investigate the secrets of nature.”

Evangelicæ Historiæ: Quadripartita Monas Sive Harmonia Quatuor Evangelistarum ("Harmonization of the Gospels") (1592), dedicatory letter. Quoted in Jean Van Raemdonck, Gerard Mercator: sa vie et ses oeuvres (1869), p. 25, footnote 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=18NNAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA25