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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

9.5 Brilliant

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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

9.4 Excellent

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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

9.1 Excellent

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Juan de la Cosa

Juan de la Cosa was a Spanish navigator and cartographer who created the 1500 Mappa Mundi, the earliest surviving map to...

Spanish Renaissance New World 15TH Century

8.8 Great

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Heinrich Berghaus

Heinrich Berghaus (1797–1884) was a German geographer who created a groundbreaking physical atlas that visually depicted...

German 19TH Century Thematic Physical Atlas

8.8 Great

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Karl Ritter

Karl Ritter (1779–1859) was a pioneering German geographer who helped establish modern academic geography through his ex...

German Academic 19TH Century Physical

8.8 Great

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Abraham Cresques

Abraham Cresques was a 14th-century Jewish cartographer from Majorca who created the famous Catalan Atlas in 1375 for Ch...

Medieval 14TH Century Majorcan Catalan Jewish

8.8 Great

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Sebastian Münster

Sebastian Münster was a 16th-century German geographer whose 1544 Cosmographia became the earliest comprehensive descrip...

German Renaissance 16TH Century Atlas

8.6 Great

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Jia Dan

Jia Dan was a 8th-century Chinese cartographer and scholar notable for creating the Hainei Huayi Tu, an extensive map of...

Medieval Chinese 8TH Century World Map

8.5 Great

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Al-Masudi

Al-Masudi was a 10th-century Arab historian and geographer whose comprehensive work Muruj al-Dhahab documented lands fro...

Medieval Islamic 10TH Century Arab

8.4 Great

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Henricus Martellus

Henricus Martellus was a 15th-century German cartographer working in Florence, known for his 1490 world map that influen...

German Renaissance 15TH Century World Map

8.3 Great

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Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli

Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli was a 15th-century Italian mathematician whose 1474 world map concept inspired Christopher Co...

Italian Renaissance 15TH Century World Map

8.3 Great

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Benincasa Grazioso

Grazioso Benincasa was a 15th-century Italian cartographer whose detailed manuscript portolan atlases and charts expertl...

Italian Medieval Adriatic 15TH Century

8.2 Great

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Giovanni Matteo Contarini

Giovanni Matteo Contarini was a 15th-century Italian cartographer known for his 1506 world map, the earliest surviving m...

Italian Renaissance Venetian 15TH Century

7.9 Good

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Francesco Rosselli

Francesco Rosselli was a 15th-century Italian miniaturist and cartographer who created a landmark 1508 printed world map...

Italian Renaissance 15TH Century Engraver

7.8 Good

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Karl von Spruner

Bavarian military officer and cartographer (1803–1892) best known for the Spruner-Menke Historisch-geographischer Hand-A...

German Academic 19TH Century Medieval

7.8 Good

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Albino de Canepa

Albino de Canepa was a 15th-century Genoese cartographer notable for his 1489 manuscript portolan chart, which provided...

Italian Medieval 15TH Century Portolan

7.5 Good

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Giovanni Leardo

Giovanni Leardo was a 15th-century Venetian mapmaker notable for producing several surviving mappaemundi, including the...

Italian Medieval Venetian 15TH Century

7.5 Good

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Ptolemy translator Jacopo d'Angelo

Jacopo d'Angelo was an Italian scholar who translated Ptolemy's Geography into Latin in 1406, significantly influencing...

Italian Renaissance Medieval 15TH Century

6.0 Fair

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Evesham World Map author

The anonymous creator of the Evesham World Map, produced circa 1390 in England, is notable for incorporating both biblic...

Medieval English Monastery 13TH Century

5.0 Mediocre