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Cresques Abraham

Working in fourteenth-century Majorca, the Jewish cartographer Abraham Cresques belonged to a Mediterranean tradition of...

Medieval Catalan 14TH Century Majorcan

9.22 Excellent

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Diego Ribeiro

Diego Ribeiro was a Portuguese cartographer and cosmographer who served the Spanish Crown in the early sixteenth century...

16TH Century Portuguese World Map Spanish Service

8.86 Great

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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

8.84 Great

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Martin Waldseemüller

Martin Waldseemüller was a 16th-century German cartographer renowned for his meticulous and innovative maps. His 1507 wo...

German Renaissance 16TH Century World Map

8.69 Great

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Muhammad al-Idrisi

Muhammad al-Idrisi was a prominent 12th-century Arab cartographer renowned for his creation of the Tabula Rogeriana. Thi...

Medieval 12TH Century Islamic Arab

8.60 Great

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Fra Mauro

The Fra Mauro map is a meticulously detailed world map produced in approximately 1450 by Venetian monk Fra Mauro. This r...

Italian Medieval Venetian 15TH Century

8.33 Great

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Henricus Martellus Germanus

Henricus Martellus Germanus was a German cartographer active in Florence during the late 15th century. He is known for c...

German Renaissance Florence 15TH Century

8.21 Great

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Martin Behaim

Martin Behaim was a German textile merchant and navigator best known for creating the Erdapfel, the oldest surviving ter...

German Renaissance 15TH Century Globe

8.12 Great

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Jia Dan

Jia Dan was a Chinese scholar, cartographer, and government official who lived during the Tang dynasty in the 8th and ea...

Medieval Chinese 8TH Century World Map

7.77 Good

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Al-Masudi

Al-Masudi (c. 896-956 CE) was a 10th-century Arab historian and geographer whose comprehensive work 'Muruj al-Dhahab' (T...

Medieval Islamic 10TH Century Arab

7.68 Good

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Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli

Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (1397–1482) was an Italian mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer from Florence. He is k...

Italian Renaissance 15TH Century World Map

7.64 Good

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Claudius Clavus

Claudius Clavus, also known as Claudius Claussøn Swart (1388-?), was a Danish geographer and cartographer active in the...

Danish Medieval Scandinavia 15TH Century

7.62 Good

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Henricus Martellus

Henricus Martellus was a German cartographer active in Florence, Italy, during the late 15th century. He is best known f...

German Renaissance 15TH Century World Map

7.59 Good

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Benincasa Grazioso

Grazioso Benincasa was a fifteenth-century Italian mariner and cartographer from Ancona who produced manuscript portolan...

Italian Medieval Adriatic 15TH Century

7.54 Good

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Giovanni Matteo Contarini

Giovanni Matteo Contarini was a 15th- and 16th-century Italian cartographer and nobleman from Venice. He is best known f...

Italian Renaissance Venetian 15TH Century

7.22 Good

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Francesco Rosselli

Francesco Rosselli (1445–1513) was an Italian miniaturist, engraver, and cartographer active in Florence during the earl...

Italian Renaissance 15TH Century Engraver

7.18 Good

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Karl von Spruner

Karl von Spruner (1803–1892) was a Bavarian military officer and historical cartographer. He is best known for his Histo...

German Academic 19TH Century Medieval

7.18 Good

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Albino de Canepa

Albino de Canepa was a Genoese cartographer active in the fifteenth century and known primarily through surviving manusc...

Italian Medieval 15TH Century Portolan

6.90 Fair

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Giovanni Leardo

Giovanni Leardo was a fifteenth-century Venetian cartographer known from several signed circular world maps. His mappae...

Italian Medieval Venetian 15TH Century

6.90 Fair

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Ptolemy translator Jacopo d'Angelo

Jacopo d'Angelo, also known as Jacopo Angeli da Scarperia or Jacobus Angelus, was an Italian classical scholar, humanist...

Italian Renaissance Medieval 15TH Century

5.52 Mediocre