StadsTV Sint-Niklaas - Vernieuwd mercatormuseum
Het mercatormuseum is vernieuwd. Er zijn twee nieuwe pronkstukken die de collectie hebben vervoegd in combinatie met de sterke elementen uit Mercator digitaal.
Huis Janssens / 150 jaar KOKW - Mercatormuseum in Sint-Niklaas
Huis Janssens - Mercatormuseum Sint-Niklaas
Opendeurdag 20 februari 2011
150 jaar Koninklijke Oudheidkundige Kring van het Land van Waas (KOKW)
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Zamanstraat 49 - Sint-Niklaas
The beautiful city of Sint Niklaas in Belgium
Sint-Niklaas is the capital and major city of the Waasland region straddling the East Flanders and Antwerp provinces. The city is known for having the largest market square in Belgium. At one point this square also boasted the largest Christmas tree, and the largest easter egg in Europe.
The main Church of Saint Nicholas was founded in the 13th century and gave its name to the city. After heavy damage in the 16th century, the interior was redone in the Baroque style.
St. Joseph Minor Seminary, catholic school.
The Church of Our Lady, built in the 19th century, famous for its Byzantine revival interior, and 6m tall statue of our lady on top, covered in fine gold.
Town Hall, in gothical revival style was builkt after the old hall burned down.
The largest market square in Belgium, founded by Margaret II, Countess of Flanders.
The Gerardus Mercator Museum traces the history of cartography back to its origins. The museum also houses two original globes that belonged to the famous cartographer.
Other churches and museums include: Saint Joseph, Christ the King, Saloons of Fine Arts and Zwijgershoek.
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StadsTV Sint-Niklaas - Toeristische wandelingen
Dienst toerisme heeft een nieuwe folder voor groepsuitstappen waar tal van nieuwe wandelingen aan zijn toegevoegd!
000357 - StadsTV - Sint-Niklaas - zoektocht Ster
Tot 30 april kan iedereen deelnemen aan een zoektocht in natuurdomein De Ster. Met een vragenlijst verken je de mooiste verborgen plekjes.
VOORPOST - Met de DIEREN tegen de BEESTEN - Recreatiedomein DE STER - Sint-Niklaas
VOORPOST - Met de DIEREN tegen de BEESTEN - Recreatiedomein DE STER - Sint-Niklaas
Wat vorige week op recreatiedomein De Ster in Sint-Niklaas afspeelde tart toch wel elke verbeelding, 's nachts werd ezelsveulen Niki vastgeplakt met plakband en verkracht.
Het beest raakte ernstig gewond en was zelfs even in kritieke toestand.
Met walging en ongeloof wordt hier op het recreatiedomein gereageerd op de beestachtige praktijken die werden uitgevoerd op het ezeltje. Er moest blijkbaar zelfs eerder ingegrepen worden bij de ezels want onlangs kroop er een man met wit lang kleed over de omheining om op één van de ezels te rijden.
Inmiddels loopt er een politieonderzoek maar wat betreft informatie verder informatie blijft het ijzig stil en men belooft verhoogd toezicht, hiervan is weinig te merken... Stop de struisvogelpotiliek!
Voorpost voegt de daad bij het woord.
Met de dieren tegen de beesten.
StadsTV Sint-Niklaas - Bijen
Op vrijdag 5 en dinsdag 9 april kan je een zakje zadenmengsel afhalen bij de infobalie die de bijen zullen verwennen want er verdwijnen steeds meer bijen!
Stadstelevisie Sint-Niklaas 2011-02-16
- Opendeur en renovatie Huis Janssens
- Bijententoonstelling Bib
- KaHo Sint-Lieven organiseert fitnessevent in Siniscoop voor 1000 kilometer van Kom op Tegen Kanker
800 jaar Sint-Niklaas - Promotiefilm
Stadstelevisie Sint-Niklaas 2011-03-09
- Mercator 2012 zoekt logo
- aan het woord: Beeldig Bolivia
- vrijwilligers gezocht voor vervoersservice mensen met beperking
Landscape - Mindscape Stefaan van Biesen
25.05.2017. Fragment of a performance by Stefaan van Biesen at the Mercator Museum Sint-Niklaas Belgium for the Art event Opdonder4 curated by Johan De Vos & Eric Windey.
Putteke winter ster Sint Niklaas 2017
Hey,
Dit is de Eerste editie van Putteke Winter op de Ster in Sint-Niklaas.
Ik hoop dat je kan genieten van mijn tocht van deze magische belevenis.
Sorry voor de minder goede beelden want het was aan het regenen die dag.
De muziek bij het vuurwerk is gefilmd.
Links:
- Michael Donner:
Muziek gebruikt van:
- Michael Donner:
- The 7th Crest - The hidden Mine
- Red River
- Wolves hunt in packs
- Island Flight
- The Witch and the Knight_PhraseC
- Dark Tower
- Final
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Mindset for 2 globes. Video and Sound track Stefaan van Biesen 2015-2017.
Mindset for 2 Globes. Video and soundtrack (20 min] by Stefaan van Biesen. Part of a perfomance by visual artist Stefaan van Biesen for Opdonder4 at the Mercatormuseum Sint-Niklaas Belgium [25.05.2017]. Performance in the space where the 2 globes of Gerard Mercator [1512-1584] are shown. Curated by Johan De Vos and Eric Windey.
The soundtrack for this video 'Hythlodaeus' was made for the Utopia Grid project Oxford University 'Cities and Memory'.
Making a soundscape 'Hythlodaeus 2015': during the Milena principle 'Sea Born' project in Venice 2015, Geert Vermeire and Stefaan van Biesen made field recordings in Venice and later in Antwerp. They used this digital material to make a soundscape for the Utopia sound project of Cities and Memory. The theme was the map of Utopia made by Ambrosius Holbein in 1518. Composing, production and mixing by Stefaan van Biesen 2015.
Soundscape 'Hythlodaeus 2015': texts 'Unfolding the City' by Geert Vermeire, 'Siren' by Stefaan van Biesen. Voice by Stefaan van Biesen. Field recordings by Geert Vermeire and Stefaan van Biesen. © Stefaan van Biesen / the Milena principle.
Carlow Stonemasons work on water-feature for Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Stone Developments stonemasons in Carlow work on water-feature for Stationstraat in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Sint-Niklaas
Sint-Niklaas is a Belgian city and municipality located in the Flemish province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Sint-Niklaas proper and the towns of Belsele, Nieuwkerken-Waas, and Sinaai.
Sint-Niklaas is the capital and major city of the Waasland region straddling the East Flanders and Antwerp provinces. The city is known for having the largest market square in Belgium. At one point this square also boasted the largest Christmas tree, and the largest easter egg in Europe.
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Mercator digitaal - Kleurrijk Oost-Vlaanderen 2012-04-18
The Life And Death Of Gerardus Mercator
Gerardus Mercator (born 5 March 1512 in Rupelmonde, County of Flanders (in modern Belgium), died 2 December 1594 in Duisburg, United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, (modern-day Germany)) was a cartographer, philosopher and mathematician. He is best known for his work in cartography, in particular the world map of 1569 based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing as straight lines. He was the first to use the term atlas for a collection of maps.
Mercator was born in the town of Rupelmonde where he was named Gerard de Kremer or de Cremer. He was raised in Gangelt in the Duchy of Jülich, the home town of his parents. Mercator is the Latinized form of his name which means merchant. He was educated in 's-Hertogenbosch by the famous humanist Macropedius and at the University of Leuven (both in the historical Duchy of Brabant). Despite Mercator's fame as a cartographer, his main source of income came through his craftsmanship of mathematical instruments. In Leuven, he worked with Gemma Frisius and Gaspar Van Der Heyden (Gaspar Myrica) from 1535 to 1536 to construct a terrestrial globe, although the role of Mercator in the project was not primarily as a cartographer, but rather as a highly skilled engraver of brass plates. Mercator's own independent map-making began only when he produced a map of Palestine in 1537; this map was followed by another—a map of the world (1538) – and a map of the County of Flanders (1540). During this period he learned Italic script because it was the most suitable type of script for copper engraving of maps. He wrote the first instruction book of Italic script published in northern Europe.
Mercator was charged with heresy in 1544, on the basis of his sympathy for Protestant beliefs and suspicions about his frequent travels.[note 1] He was in prison for seven months before the charges were dropped—possibly because of intervention from the university authorities.
In 1552, he moved to Duisburg, one of the major cities in the Duchy of Cleves, and opened a cartographic workshop where he completed a six-panel map of Europe in 1554. He worked also as a surveyor for the city. His motives for moving to Duisburg are not clear. Mercator might have left Flanders for religious reasons or because he was informed of plans to found a university. He taught mathematics at the academic college of Duisburg. In 1564, after producing several maps, he was appointed court cosmographer to Wilhelm, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. In 1569, he devised a new projection for a nautical chart which had orthogonal lines of longitude, spaced evenly, and lines of latitude spaced so that sailing courses of constant bearing were represented as straight lines (loxodromes).
Mercator took the word atlas to describe a collection of maps, and encouraged Abraham Ortelius to compile the first modern world atlas – Theatrum Orbis Terrarum – in 1570. He produced his own atlas in a number of parts, the first of which was published in 1578 and consisted of corrected versions of the maps of Ptolemy (though introducing a number of new errors). Maps of France, Germany and the Netherlands were added in 1585 and of the Balkans and Greece in 1588; further maps were published by Mercator's son, Rumold Mercator, in 1595 after the death of his father.
Mercator learnt globe making from Gemma Frisius, and went on to become the leading European globe maker of the age. Twenty-two pairs of his globes (terrestrial globe and matching celestial globe) have survived.
Following his move to Duisburg, Mercator never left the city and died there, a respected and wealthy citizen.
Legacy
Mercator is buried in Duisburg's main church of Saint Salvatorus. Exhibits of his works can be seen in the Mercator treasury located in the city.
More exhibits about Mercator's life and work are featured at the Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium.
The famous sailing ship Mercator is named after Gerardus Mercator to honour his improvements in the area of naval navigation. The ship was built in 1932 and is currently used as a museum.
2012 marked the 500th anniversary of Mercator's birth. On 4 March 2012, celebrations of Mercator's life were held at his birthplace, Rupelmonde.
In 2015, a Google Doodle commemorated his 503rd birthday.