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Arnold was the eldest child of Gerardus Mercator and Barbara Schellekens from Leuven, who married in 1536. [1] [2] Arnold grew up in Leuven and, as a 7-year-old boy, witnessed the arrest of his father, who was then a professor in Leuven. Gerardus Mercator was suspected of Lutheranism. His father was released after a few months.
The school was founded in 1843 by canon Constant van Crombrugghe, founder of the Congregation of the Josephites, on the site of the former Trinity College, Leuven.The main entrance to the school is located on the edge of the Old Market, the rear of the school is at the Father Damien Square, where the mortal remains of Blessed Damien of Molokai rest in the crypt of the St. Anthony Church.
The library's copy of the 1595 atlas of Gerardus Mercator. With more than 6 million items on over 150 km (93 mi) of bookshelves, the Royal Library of Belgium is the biggest library in the country. It contains: 4,600,000 modern printed books; 21,500 magazines; 150,000 maps; 32,000 manuscripts; 300,000 early printed materials
The rich archives of the old University of Leuven, after its suppression by the law of the French Republic, so as all the other Universities of the French Republic, were transferred to a "Commission in charge of the management of the goods of the abolished university in Leuven", set up in 1797 and active until 1813. [40]
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The Mercator Telescope is a 1.2 m telescope at the Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos on La Palma. It is operated by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven University), Belgium, in collaboration with the Observatory of the University of Geneva and named after Gerard Mercator , famous cartographer.
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