swap_horiz George Everest Alternatives

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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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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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Augustus Petermann

Augustus Petermann was a 19th-century German cartographer renowned for his detailed explorations of Arctic regions. His...

19TH Century Arctic Thematic German English

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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J.B. Harley

British historian of cartography (1932–1991) who pioneered a critical, deconstructionist approach analyzing maps as poli...

20TH Century British Critical Theory Theoretical

8.7 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

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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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William Roy

Scottish military surveyor (1726–1790) whose triangulation of Britain and proposal for a national survey laid the ground...

Military 18TH Century British Triangulation

8.2 Great

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Edward Stanford

British publisher (1827–1904) who founded Edward Stanford Ltd. in London in 1853, building one of the world's most promi...

19TH Century London British Atlas

8.1 Great

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James Wyld the Elder

British cartographer (1790–1836) who served as Geographer to King George IV and William IV and founded the Wyld map publ...

19TH Century British Atlas Publisher

7.2 Good

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James Wyld the Younger

British cartographer (1812–1887) who served as Geographer to Queen Victoria and built a large-scale Great Globe in Londo...

19TH Century British Atlas Publisher

7.0 Good