Mathematician:Nicholas Mercator

Mathematician
German mathematician who designed a marine chronometer for Charles II, and designed and constructed the fountains at the Palace of Versailles.

Known for the Newton-Mercator Series.

Nationality
German

History

 * Born: 1620 in Eutin, Holstein, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany)
 * Died: 14 January 1687 in Paris, France

Theorems

 * Newton-Mercator Series (independently of, also discovered by )

Publications

 * 1651: Trigonometria sphaericorum logarithmica
 * 1651: Cosmographia
 * 1651: Astronomica sphaerica
 * 1653: Rationes mathematicae subductae
 * 1653: De emendatione annua diatribae duae
 * 1664: Hypothesis astronomica nova
 * 1668: Logarithmotechnia 
 * 1676: Institutiones astronomicae (2 volumes)

Also known as
Nicholas Mercator was originally named Niklaus Kauffman (or Kauffmann). He later changed his surname to Mercator, the Latin form of merchant.

Nicholas is variously rendered Nicolaus, Nikolaus or Niklaus.