Nicholas Mercator

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What Wikipedia says

Nicholas (Nikolaus) Mercator (c. 1620, Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck – 1687, Versailles), also known by his German name Kauffmann, was a 17th-century mathematician.

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Image: Nicolaus Mercator (1620-1687), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.