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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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Vincenzo Maria Coronelli

Vincenzo Maria Coronelli was a 17th-century Italian Franciscan friar and cartographer famous for creating two massive te...

Italian 17TH Century Early Modern Atlas

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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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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Petrus Vesconte

Petrus Vesconte was a Genoese cartographer active around 1311 whose surviving portolan charts represent some of the earl...

Italian Medieval 14TH Century Portolan

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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Angelino Dulcert

Angelino Dulcert was a 14th-century cartographer known for his 1339 portolan chart, which is the oldest known map signed...

Italian Medieval 14TH Century Portolan

8.3 Great

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Battista Agnese

Battista Agnese was a 16th-century Genoese cartographer renowned for his beautifully decorated and highly accurate manus...

Italian Renaissance 16TH Century Venetian

8.2 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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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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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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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

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Andreas Walsperger

Andreas Walsperger was an Austrian monk who created a notable circular mappamundi in 1448, reflecting medieval cosmologi...

German Medieval 15TH Century World Map

7.0 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