swap_horiz David Thompson Alternatives

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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

2

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

3

Guillaume Delisle

Guillaume Delisle was a 18th-century French cartographer whose meticulous work significantly advanced mapmaking techniqu...

18TH Century French Accuracy Scientific

9.2 Excellent

4

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville was a prominent 18th-century French cartographer renowned for meticulous mapmaking....

18TH Century French Accuracy Atlas

9.1 Excellent

5

Matthew Flinders

Matthew Flinders was an English cartographer renowned for his detailed surveys of Australia during the late 18th century...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Australia

9.1 Excellent

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César-François Cassini de Thury

César-François Cassini de Thury was a French cartographer active in the 18th century. He led the ambitious national surv...

18TH Century French France Triangulation

9.0 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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Aaron Arrowsmith

Aaron Arrowsmith was an 18th-century English cartographer renowned for his meticulously crafted large format atlases and...

18TH Century Exploration Large Format English

8.9 Great

9

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

10

George Vancouver

George Vancouver was a British Royal Navy officer who led an exhaustive 1790s maritime expedition that charted the highl...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Pacific Coast

8.8 Great

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Jacques Cassini

Jacques Cassini (1677–1756) was a French astronomer and cartographer whose geodetic surveys helped prove that the Earth...

18TH Century French Survey Meridian

8.5 Great

12

Alejandro Malaspina

Alejandro Malaspina was an Italian-born Spanish naval officer who led a major scientific expedition between 1789 and 179...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Pacific

8.5 Great

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Samuel Holland

Samuel Holland was a Dutch-born British surveyor who became the first Surveyor General of British North America, produci...

18TH Century Survey British Colonial

8.3 Great

14

Joseph Nicollet

French-American explorer and scientist (1786–1843) who produced the first detailed scientific maps of the upper Mississi...

Exploration Survey 19TH Century Mississippi

8.0 Great

15

Charles-François Beautemps-Beaupré

Charles-François Beautemps-Beaupré was a French hydrographer who led surveys of the Greek archipelago in 1793, pioneerin...

18TH Century French Survey Nautical

8.0 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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Joseph Bouchette

Joseph Bouchette was an early 19th-century Canadian surveyor general who created extensive maps of Lower Canada and publ...

18TH Century Survey Canadian Canada

7.8 Good

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John Charles Frémont

American explorer and military officer (1813–1890) who led multiple expeditions mapping the American West in the 1840s,...

Exploration American Survey 19TH Century

7.5 Good

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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