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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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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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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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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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Diogo Ribeiro

Diogo Ribeiro was a 16th-century Portuguese cartographer working for Spain who created the 1527 Padrón Real, the officia...

Renaissance 16TH Century Portuguese World Map

8.4 Great

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Gemma Frisius

Gemma Frisius was a Dutch physician and mathematician who first proposed the principle of triangulation for surveying in...

Renaissance 16TH Century Flemish Globe

8.4 Great

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Jacob van Deventer

Flemish cartographer (c. 1500–1575) who produced detailed manuscript maps of the Low Countries for Philip II of Spain an...

Renaissance Dutch Netherlands 16TH Century

8.4 Great

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Fernão Vaz Dourado

Fernão Vaz Dourado was a 16th-century Portuguese cartographer renowned for his highly detailed and decorated manuscript...

Renaissance 16TH Century Portuguese Atlas

8.3 Great

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Peter Apian (Petrus Apianus)

German mathematician and cartographer (1495–1552) who published the influential Cosmographicus liber (1524) and a 1520 w...

German Renaissance Mathematical 16TH Century

8.2 Great

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Peter Apian

Peter Apian was a 16th-century German humanist who published the Cosmographicus liber in 1524, a highly influential work...

German Renaissance 16TH Century Cosmography

8.0 Great

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Matthias Ringmann

German humanist scholar who co-authored the 1507 Cosmographiae Introductio with Martin Waldseemüller, the text that firs...

German Renaissance Humanist 16TH Century

7.7 Good

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Heinrich Bünting

German Protestant theologian (1545–1606) whose 1581 Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae featured a celebrated cloverleaf world...

German Renaissance 16TH Century Itinerarium

7.1 Good

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Walther Ryff

German physician and 16th-century compiler who published vernacular works on medicine and geography in Strasbourg, adapt...

German Renaissance 16TH Century Architect

5.5 Mediocre