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Gerardus Mercator

Gerardus Mercator was a prominent 16th-century Flemish cartographer renowned for developing the Mercator projection. Thi...

Renaissance Projection 16TH Century Atlas

9.9 Brilliant

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Abraham Ortelius

Abraham Ortelius was a prominent Flemish cartographer of the Renaissance era. He is best known for creating the *Theatru...

Renaissance 16TH Century Atlas Flemish

9.7 Brilliant

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Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus)

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek-Egyptian scholar active in Alexandria during the Roman Empire. He is renowned as a geograph...

Geography Ancient Greek Mathematical

9.7 Brilliant

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James Cook

James Cook was an English cartographer and explorer active in the 18th century. His detailed surveys of the Pacific Ocea...

18TH Century Exploration Survey English

9.6 Brilliant

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Eduard Imhof

Eduard Imhof was a Swiss cartographer active throughout the 20th century. He is particularly recognized for pioneering i...

Swiss 20TH Century Terrain Relief Shading

9.6 Brilliant

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Jack Dangermond

Jack Dangermond is a prominent American cartographer and entrepreneur. He co-established Esri in 1969, pioneering digita...

American 20TH Century Digital Gis

9.6 Brilliant

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Waldo Tobler

Waldo Tobler (1909-1983) was a prominent American geographer renowned for his contributions to cartography and geography...

American 20TH Century Gis First Law

9.5 Brilliant

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Pei Xiu

Pei Xiu was a prominent Chinese cartographer during the 3rd century. He developed and codified the first systematic grid...

Ancient Chinese 3RD Century Grid Map

9.3 Excellent

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Marinus of Tyre

Marinus of Tyre was a 2nd-century Roman cartographer renowned for developing the first known world map utilizing latitud...

Classical Ancient Roman Projection

9.0 Excellent

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Hecataeus of Miletus

Hecataeus of Miletus was an early Greek geographer and logographer who lived during the 6th and 5th centuries BC. He is...

Classical Geography Ancient Greek

8.5 Great

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Abu Zayd al-Balkhi

Abu Zayd Ahmad ibn Sahl al-Balkhi was a Persian polymath born in the ninth century near Balkh, in present-day Afghanista...

Medieval Regional Islamic 10TH Century

8.2 Great

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Pomponius Mela

Pomponius Mela was a Roman geographer who wrote during the 1st century AD, hailing from a Roman province in southern His...

Classical Geography Ancient Roman

8.1 Great

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Gilles Robert de Vaugondy

Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1688–1766) was a prominent French cartographer and geographer who inherited his father's map-...

18TH Century French Geography Atlas

8.1 Great

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Didier Robert de Vaugondy

Didier Robert de Vaugondy (1723–1786) was a French cartographer who succeeded his father, Gilles Robert de Vaugondy, in...

18TH Century French Geography Atlas

7.8 Good

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Jedidiah Morse

Jedidiah Morse was an American Congregational minister, geographer, and author who lived from 1761 to 1826. His Geograph...

18TH Century American Geography Atlas

7.5 Good

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Caspar Vopel

Caspar Vopel was a 16th-century German mathematician and cartographer from Cologne who created detailed celestial and te...

German Rhine Regional 16TH Century

7.1 Good

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Jean-Baptiste-Louis Clouet

Jean-Baptiste-Louis Clouet was an 18th-century French cartographer and geographer associated with the Académie des Scien...

18TH Century French Geography Atlas

7.0 Good

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Luís Jorge de Barbuda

Luís Jorge de Barbuda was a Portuguese cartographer active in the 16th century and associated with the service of the Sp...

Iberia Regional 16TH Century Portuguese

7.0 Good

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Tilemann Stella

Tilemann Stella (1525-1589) was a German cartographer, mathematician, geometer, engineer, and geographer associated with...

German Survey Regional 16TH Century

6.9 Fair

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Theodor Menke

German classical cartographer (1819–1892) who specialized in historical cartography of the ancient world and produced de...

German Classical 19TH Century Historical Atlas

6.5 Fair