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Gerardus Mercator (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ r ɑːr d ə s m ɜːr ˈ k eɪ t ər /; 5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer. He is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing ( rhumb lines ) as straight lines—an innovation ...
1539 ( MDXXXIX ) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1539th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 539th year of the 2nd millennium, the 39th year of the 16th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1530s decade.
Jan 4, 2019 · Esteban was also known as Estabanico, Estavanico, Esteban De Dorantes, Esteban the Moor, Mustapha Azemouri, Black Stephen and Stephen the Moor. These were the many names by which this man, an African, was known. His achievements in the 16th century largely remain undervalued due to his status as a slave.
Gurū Nānak Dēv (Punjabi: ਗੁਰੂ ਨਾਨਕ ਦੇਵ) (October 20, 1469 – September 22, 1539) was the founder of the Sikh religion whose message of monotheistic devotion and religious harmony offered a bridge of understanding between East and West.
May 23, 2018 · However, in 1539 he dispatched Marcos de Niza with Estabanico (who had been with Cabeza de Vaca) to explore in advance. The friar sent his companion ahead. Estabanico reached the Zuni pueblo of Hawikuh in western New Mexico and was killed by Indians.
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See, for example, T. J. Wengert, ‘“With friends like this …”: the biography of Philip Melanchthon by Joachim Camerarius’, in T. F. Mayer and D. R. Woolf (eds), The rhetorics of life-writing in early modern Europe: forms of biography from Cassandra Fedele to Louis XIV, Ann Arbor, M i 1995, 115–31.
