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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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Pei Xiu

Pei Xiu was a prominent Chinese cartographer during the 3rd century. He developed and codified the first systematic grid...

Ancient Chinese 3RD Century Grid Map

9.3 Excellent

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Fra Mauro

The Fra Mauro map is a meticulously detailed world map produced in approximately 1450 by Venetian monk Fra Mauro. This r...

Italian Medieval Venetian 15TH Century

9.1 Excellent

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Abraham Cresques

Abraham Cresques was a 14th-century Jewish cartographer from Majorca who created the famous Catalan Atlas in 1375 for Ch...

Medieval 14TH Century Majorcan Catalan Jewish

8.8 Great

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Hecataeus of Miletus

Hecataeus of Miletus was an early Greek geographer whose 6th-century BC work Periodos Ges created one of the first known...

Classical Geography Ancient Greek

8.5 Great

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Zhu Siben

Zhu Siben was a Yuan dynasty Chinese cartographer who created the Guangyu Tu in 1320, setting the standard for Chinese a...

Medieval Chinese 13TH Century Atlas

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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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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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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Ibn Hawqal

Ibn Hawqal was a 10th-century Arab geographer whose work Surat al-Ard provided invaluable details on the Islamic world a...

Medieval Islamic 10TH Century Arab

8.3 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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Abu Zayd al-Balkhi

Abu Zayd al-Balkhi was a 9th-century Persian scholar who founded the Balkhi school of Islamic geography and created the...

Medieval Regional Islamic 10TH Century

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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Jehuda Cresques

Jehuda Cresques, son of Abraham Cresques, was a Majorcan cartographer who directed the Portuguese nautical chart worksho...

Medieval 14TH Century Portolan Majorcan

8.2 Great

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Richard of Haldingham

Richard of Haldingham is the 14th-century creator of the renowned Mappa Mundi, a massive medieval world map completed ar...

Medieval English Monastery 13TH Century

8.2 Great

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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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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