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Gerardus Mercator

Gerardus Mercator was a prominent 16th-century Flemish cartographer renowned for developing the Mercator projection. Thi...

Renaissance Projection 16TH Century Atlas

9.9 Brilliant

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Abraham Ortelius

Abraham Ortelius was a prominent Flemish cartographer of the Renaissance era. He is best known for creating the *Theatru...

Renaissance 16TH Century Atlas Flemish

9.7 Brilliant

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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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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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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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Georg Braun

German canon and geographer (1541–1622) who edited and compiled the Civitates Orbis Terrarum (1572–1617), a landmark six...

German Renaissance 16TH Century Civitates Orbis Terrarum

8.8 Great

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Giacomo Gastaldi

Giacomo Gastaldi was a 16th-century Italian cartographer who pioneered the use of copperplate engraving for maps, produc...

Italian Renaissance 16TH Century Venetian

8.7 Great

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Christopher Saxton

Christopher Saxton was a 16th-century English cartographer who produced the first comprehensive atlas of England and Wal...

England Renaissance English 16TH Century

8.7 Great

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Vincenzo Coronelli

Italian Franciscan friar and cartographer (1650–1718) who founded the world's first geographical society in Venice and c...

Italian 17TH Century Golden Age Venetian

8.7 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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Johann Schöner

Johann Schöner was a German astronomer and cartographer who created the first printed globe of the Earth in 1515, playin...

German Renaissance 16TH Century Nuremberg

8.6 Great

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Franz Hogenberg

Flemish engraver and cartographer (c. 1535–1590) who co-created the Civitates Orbis Terrarum city atlas with Georg Braun...

Renaissance 16TH Century Flemish Engraver

8.6 Great

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Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer

Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer was a 16th-century Dutch navigator who published the Spieghel der Zeevaerdt in 1584, the first...

Renaissance Dutch Nautical 16TH Century

8.5 Great

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Pietro Vesconte

Genoese cartographer active c. 1310–1330 who is among the earliest known professional mapmakers, producing detailed port...

Italian Medieval Venetian 14TH Century

8.5 Great

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Pieter Plancius

Dutch Reformed minister and cartographer (1552–1622) who planned navigation routes for the Dutch East India Company and...

Renaissance Dutch 16TH Century Celestial

8.5 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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Paolo Forlani

Paolo Forlani was a 16th-century Italian cartographer and engraver active in Venice who produced influential early maps...

Italian Renaissance 16TH Century Venetian

7.8 Good

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Giovanni Antonio Magini

Italian astronomer and cartographer (1555–1617) who compiled a detailed atlas of Italy published posthumously as Italia...

Italian Renaissance 16TH Century Atlas

7.7 Good

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Girolamo Ruscelli

Italian humanist scholar who produced an updated and expanded edition of Ptolemy's Geographia in Venice in 1561, featuri...

Italian Renaissance 16TH Century Ptolemy Edition

7.4 Good

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Pietro Coppo

Pietro Coppo was a 16th-century Italian geographer whose early 1500s maps and isolarios provided some of the earliest de...

Italian Renaissance 16TH Century Venetian

7.2 Good