He can splice knots, reef and sail, work a ship in sailing, and shift his tides, keep a reckoning of the ship's way by plain sailing and mercator, observe the sun and stars, and find the variation of the compass, and is qualified to do the duty of an able seaman and midshipman.
"The Naval Pioneers of Australia"
Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery
It is perhaps not wholly superfluous to warn the reader that the apparent relative distances as shown on charts of the world, especially those on the usual mercator projection, are very different from the real relative distances.
"The Panama Canal and its Makers"
Vaughan Cornish
mercator, of map projection fame, was a Fleming named Kremer, i.
"The Romance of Names"
Ernest Weekley