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Who first used the name 'atlas' to define a set of maps?

Abraham Ortelius

Claudius Ptolemy

Gerhard Mercator

Eugeniusz Romer

Gerardus Mercator was a 16th-century German-Flemish cartographer, geographer and cosmographer. He was renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing as straight lines—an innovation that is still employed in nautical charts. Mercator was one of the founders of the Netherlandish school of cartography.

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The French Open tennis tournament is named after aviator Roland-Garros. What did he do?

he invented a monoplane

he flew from Paris to London

he flew across the Mediterranean Sea

he became the first fighter ace of WWI

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