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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

2

William Smith

William Smith was a prominent 18th and 19th-century English cartographer whose meticulous work revolutionized geological...

18TH Century English Geological Map Stratigraphy

9.5 Brilliant

3

David Thompson

David Thompson was a 18th-century cartographer employed by the Hudson’s Bay Company. He undertook extensive surveying an...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Northwest

9.3 Excellent

4

Guillaume Delisle

Guillaume Delisle was a 18th-century French cartographer whose meticulous work significantly advanced mapmaking techniqu...

18TH Century French Accuracy Scientific

9.2 Excellent

5

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville was a prominent 18th-century French cartographer renowned for meticulous mapmaking....

18TH Century French Accuracy Atlas

9.1 Excellent

6

Matthew Flinders

Matthew Flinders was an English cartographer renowned for his detailed surveys of Australia during the late 18th century...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Australia

9.1 Excellent

7

César-François Cassini de Thury

César-François Cassini de Thury was a French cartographer active in the 18th century. He led the ambitious national surv...

18TH Century French France Triangulation

9.0 Excellent

8

Aaron Arrowsmith

Aaron Arrowsmith was an 18th-century English cartographer renowned for his meticulously crafted large format atlases and...

18TH Century Exploration Large Format English

8.9 Great

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John Mitchell

John Mitchell was an 18th-century cartographer specializing in colonial North America. He produced significant maps, mos...

18TH Century American Colonial North America

8.8 Great

10

Ino Tadataka

Ino Tadataka was a 18th and early 19th-century Japanese cartographer. He undertook Japan’s first comprehensive national...

18TH Century Japan Japanese National Survey

8.8 Great

11

George Vancouver

George Vancouver was an English cartographer and Royal Navy officer instrumental in charting the Pacific Coast during th...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Pacific Coast

8.8 Great

12

Johann Heinrich Lambert

Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728–1777) was a Swiss-German polymath who made significant contributions to mathematics, physi...

German 18TH Century Mathematical Projection

8.8 Great

13

J.B. Harley

John Brian Harley was a British geographer and historian of cartography who lived from 1932 to 1991. He is best known fo...

20TH Century British Critical Theory Theoretical

8.7 Great

14

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin was an eighteenth-century French hydrographer and cartographer who served the French naval admini...

18TH Century French Naval Hydrographer

8.6 Great

15

Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres

Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres (1721-1824) was a Swiss-born military engineer and cartographer who served in the Brit...

18TH Century Nautical Enlightenment British Canadian

8.6 Great

16

George Everest

George Everest was a British geographer and surveyor who served as the Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843. Duri...

19TH Century British Geodesy Triangulation

8.4 Great

17

Samuel Holland

Samuel Holland was a Dutch-born British military engineer and surveyor who became the first Surveyor General of British...

18TH Century Survey British Colonial

8.3 Great

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Giovanni Antonio Rizzi-Zannoni

Giovanni Antonio Rizzi-Zannoni was an 18th-century Italian cartographer renowned for his detailed topographic maps of Eu...

Military 18TH Century Italian Naples

8.2 Great

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Henry Popple

Henry Popple was an English cartographer active in the early 18th century who is best known for creating "A Map of the B...

18TH Century British Colonial America

7.7 Good

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John Senex

John Senex (c. 1678–1740) was a prominent English cartographer, engraver, and publisher of maps and globes. Elected a Fe...

18TH Century British Atlas Publisher

7.4 Good