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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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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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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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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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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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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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Oronce Fine

Oronce Fine was a 16th-century French mathematician and cartographer who created a notable 1531 heart-shaped world map u...

French Renaissance Projection 16TH Century

8.2 Great

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Luo Hongxian

Luo Hongxian was a Ming dynasty Chinese cartographer who published the Guangyu Tu atlas in 1555, expanding upon earlier...

Renaissance Chinese 16TH Century Atlas

8.1 Great

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Lopo Homem

Lopo Homem was a 16th-century Portuguese cartographer who was appointed royal cosmographer in 1517 and worked on the pre...

Renaissance 16TH Century Portuguese Atlas

8.1 Great

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Gerard de Jode

Gerard de Jode was a 16th-century Flemish cartographer and engraver known for his 1578 atlas, Speculum Orbis Terrarum, w...

Renaissance 16TH Century Atlas Antwerp

8.0 Great

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Guillaume Le Testu

French cartographer and privateer (c. 1509–1572) who created the Cosmographie Universelle (1556), a manuscript atlas not...

French Renaissance 16TH Century Atlas

7.9 Good

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Luís Teixeira

Luís Teixeira was a 16th-century Portuguese cartographer known for his 1580s maps of the Azores, Brazil, and Japan, cont...

Renaissance Pacific 16TH Century Portuguese

7.8 Good

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Diego Homem

Diego Homem was a 16th-century Portuguese cartographer who worked in England and is famous for creating the lavishly dec...

Renaissance 16TH Century Portuguese Atlas

7.8 Good

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Cornelis de Jode

Cornelis de Jode was a Flemish cartographer who published the Speculum Orbis Terrae in 1593, a significant but commercia...

Renaissance 16TH Century Atlas Antwerp

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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Christiaan Sgrooten

Flemish cartographer who produced a detailed manuscript atlas of the Low Countries for Philip II of Spain around 1592, c...

Renaissance Dutch 16TH Century Atlas

7.6 Good

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André Homem

André Homem was a 16th-century Portuguese cosmographer who produced influential manuscript portolan charts, including a...

Renaissance 16TH Century Portuguese Atlas

7.5 Good

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Bartolomeu Velho

Portuguese cartographer active in the mid-16th century who produced portolan charts and a notable world map (1561) that...

Renaissance 16TH Century Portuguese Atlas

7.4 Good