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Charles Joseph Minard

Charles Joseph Minard was a French cartographer active in the 19th century. He is particularly recognized for his innova...

French 19TH Century Thematic Flow Map

9.4 Excellent

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Charles Minard

Charles Minard was a French cartographer active in the 19th century. He is most recognized for his innovative 1869 flow...

French 19TH Century Statistical Thematic

9.3 Excellent

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Matthew Fontaine Maury

Matthew Fontaine Maury was a 19th-century American cartographer specializing in physical geography and oceanography. He...

American 19TH Century Physical Geography Ocean Chart

9.2 Excellent

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Jacques Bertin

Jacques Bertin was a French cartographer and semiotician active throughout the 20th century. He developed Sémiologie Gra...

French 20TH Century Theoretical Thematic

9.2 Excellent

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Henry Gannett

Henry Gannett was an American cartographer instrumental in shaping modern surveying techniques. His long tenure as chief...

American Survey 19TH Century Usgs

9.0 Excellent

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Nicolas Sanson

Nicolas Sanson was a prominent French cartographer active in the 17th century. He significantly advanced thematic mappin...

French 17TH Century Thematic Early Modern

8.9 Great

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John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell was an American geologist and cartographer instrumental in understanding the American West. His 1869...

American Survey 19TH Century Canyon

8.9 Great

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Heinrich Berghaus

Heinrich Berghaus was a 19th-century German cartographer central to the Humboldt School. He produced a significant thema...

German 19TH Century Thematic Physical Atlas

8.8 Great

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Karl Ritter

Karl Ritter was a 19th-century German cartographer and academic known for his rigorous approach to physical geography. H...

German Academic 19TH Century Physical

8.8 Great

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John George Bartholomew

John George Bartholomew was a Scottish cartographer active in the 19th century. He led Bartholomew & Son, a prominent Ed...

19TH Century Scottish Atlas Bartholomew Family

8.8 Great

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Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden

Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden was a 19th-century American cartographer renowned for his geological surveys of the Western U...

American 19TH Century West Yellowstone

8.8 Great

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Adolf Stieler

Adolf Stieler (1775–1836) was a German cartographer who conceptualized a renowned, long-running hand atlas that set high...

German 19TH Century Atlas Stieler Atlas

8.5 Great

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Charles Booth

British social reformer (1840–1916) who produced detailed color-coded poverty maps of London in the 1890s, documenting l...

Social 19TH Century English Thematic

8.5 Great

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Francis Amasa Walker

American economist and statistician (1840–1897) who directed the 9th U.S. Census and authored the groundbreaking Statist...

American 19TH Century Thematic Statistical Atlas

8.5 Great

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Francis Galton

British polymath (1822–1911) who pioneered statistical weather mapping, introduced the term 'anticyclone,' and produced...

19TH Century Statistical English Thematic

8.3 Great

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August Heinrich Petermann

German cartographer (1822–1878) who founded Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen in 1855 and pioneered thematic mapping...

German 19TH Century Thematic Atlas

8.3 Great

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Alexander Keith Johnston

Scottish cartographer (1804–1871) who produced the Physical Atlas (1848), the first comprehensive physical geography atl...

19TH Century Scottish Thematic Edinburgh

8.1 Great

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Ernst Georg Ravenstein

Ernst Georg Ravenstein (1834–1913) was a German-English geographer who established foundational laws of human migration...

19TH Century Migration Projection German English

8.0 Great

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Johann Georg Kohl

German geographer (1808–1878) who assembled a landmark collection of historical maps of America, later deposited at the...

German 19TH Century America Thematic

7.8 Good

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Andree Richard

German geographer (1835–1912) who edited Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas, first published in 1881 and recognized as one of...

German 19TH Century Thematic Publisher

7.5 Good