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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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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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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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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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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

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Johann Heinrich Lambert

Swiss-German mathematician (1728–1777) who devised multiple influential map projections, including the Lambert conformal...

German 18TH Century Mathematical Projection

8.8 Great

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Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres

Swiss-born British military surveyor who produced The Atlantic Neptune (1774–1784), a landmark maritime atlas of North A...

18TH Century Nautical Enlightenment British Canadian

8.6 Great

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John Mitchell (1711–1768)

Virginia-born British physician and cartographer whose 1755 map of eastern North America served as a primary boundary re...

18TH Century North America Enlightenment American Colonial

8.4 Great

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John Rocque

John Rocque (1705–1762) was a surveyor and cartographer active in England who famously created the first highly detailed...

18TH Century London French English Town Plan

8.3 Great

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Jacques-Dominique Cassini

French astronomer (1748–1845) who completed the Carte de Cassini, the first systematic topographic map of France, begun...

18TH Century French Enlightenment National Survey

8.3 Great

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Carl Brandan Mollweide

German mathematician (1774–1825) who invented the Mollweide equal-area pseudocylindrical projection in 1805, now widely...

German 18TH Century Mathematical Projection

8.2 Great

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Lewis Evans

Lewis Evans (1700–1756) was a Welsh-born American surveyor who produced a crucial 1749 map of the middle British colonie...

18TH Century American Survey Colonial

7.8 Good

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Henry Popple

English cartographer who produced A Map of the British Empire in America in 1733, one of the largest and most detailed m...

18TH Century British Colonial America

7.7 Good

14

Jedidiah Morse

American minister and geographer (1761–1826) called 'the Father of American Geography' for authoring the first geography...

18TH Century American Geography Atlas

7.5 Good

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John Senex

English cartographer, engraver, and publisher (c.1678–1740) elected Fellow of the Royal Society, known for producing glo...

18TH Century British Atlas Publisher

7.4 Good

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Thomas Hutchins

American surveyor (1730–1789) appointed the first and only Geographer of the United States in 1781, overseeing early fed...

18TH Century American Enlightenment Geographer Of The Us

7.4 Good

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Giovanni Maria Cassini

Italian cartographer and engraver active in Rome who published the Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale in the late 18th...

18TH Century Italian Roman Atlas

7.0 Good

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Jean-Nicolas Buache

French geographer (1741–1825), nephew of Philippe Buache, who served as Premier Géographe du Roi and later as geographer...

18TH Century French Atlas Enlightenment

6.8 Fair

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Peter Pond

Peter Pond was an 18th-century North American fur trader and mapmaker whose manuscript maps of the Mackenzie River basin...

18TH Century Exploration American Fur Trade

6.5 Fair

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William Darby

American geographer and cartographer (1775–1854) who produced some of the earliest detailed maps of Louisiana and the Un...

18TH Century American Survey Atlas

6.5 Fair