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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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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

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Piri Reis

Piri Reis was a 16th-century Ottoman admiral and cartographer. His meticulous maps, particularly the 1513 Piri Reis worl...

Renaissance Ottoman Nautical 16TH Century

9.3 Excellent

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 (1711–1768) was a British-American botanist who created a highly influential 1755 map of eastern North Ame...

18TH Century American Colonial North America

8.8 Great

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John George Bartholomew

Scottish cartographer (1860–1920) who headed the Edinburgh firm Bartholomew & Son and developed the layer-coloring syste...

19TH Century Scottish Atlas Bartholomew Family

8.8 Great

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Ino Tadataka

Japanese surveyor (1745–1818) who conducted the first modern geodetic survey of Japan, producing the first accurate maps...

18TH Century Japan Japanese National Survey

8.8 Great

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George Vancouver

George Vancouver was a British Royal Navy officer who led an exhaustive 1790s maritime expedition that charted the highl...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Pacific Coast

8.8 Great

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Jacques-Nicolas Bellin

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin was an 18th-century French hydrographer who produced over 800 maps for the French Navy, notably c...

18TH Century French Naval Hydrographer

8.6 Great

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Vicente Tofiño de San Miguel

Vicente Tofiño de San Miguel was an 18th-century Spanish naval officer and hydrographer who directed the creation of the...

18TH Century Spanish Nautical Atlas

8.3 Great

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Charles-François Beautemps-Beaupré

Charles-François Beautemps-Beaupré was a French hydrographer who led surveys of the Greek archipelago in 1793, pioneerin...

18TH Century French Survey Nautical

8.0 Great

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Murdoch Mackenzie

Murdoch Mackenzie was a Scottish surveyor who conducted the first comprehensive hydrographic survey of the Orkney Island...

18TH Century UK Scottish Coast Survey

8.0 Great

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Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis d'Après de Mannevillette

Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis d'Après de Mannevillette was an 18th-century French hydrographer famous for his Neptune Orie...

18TH Century French Pilot Nautical

7.8 Good

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Jean-Baptiste d'Après de Mannevillette

Jean-Baptiste d'Après de Mannevillette was an 18th-century French hydrographer who published the Neptune Oriental in 174...

18TH Century French Pilot Nautical

7.8 Good

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Laurie and Whittle

Laurie and Whittle were prominent British map publishers in London who acquired Robert Sayer's firm in 1794 and produced...

18TH Century English Nautical Atlas

7.0 Good