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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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Georg Braun

Georg Braun was a German Catholic cleric and geographer of the Renaissance period. He is best known as the principal edi...

German Renaissance 16TH Century Civitates Orbis Terrarum

8.8 Great

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Giacomo Gastaldi

Giacomo Gastaldi was a 16th-century Italian cartographer who worked extensively in Venice. He is recognized for pioneeri...

Italian Renaissance 16TH Century Venetian

8.7 Great

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Christopher Saxton

Christopher Saxton was a 16th-century English cartographer known for producing the first comprehensive atlas of England...

England Renaissance English 16TH Century

8.7 Great

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Sebastian Münster

Sebastian Münster was a German cartographer, cosmographer, Hebraist, and Christian scholar of the Renaissance. His Cosmo...

German Renaissance 16TH Century Atlas

8.6 Great

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Johann Baptist Homann

Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724) was a German engraver, cartographer, and map publisher who worked in Nuremberg. He est...

German 18TH Century Atlas Publisher

8.6 Great

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Franz Hogenberg

Franz Hogenberg (c. 1535–1590) was a Flemish Protestant engraver and cartographer who spent much of his career in Cologn...

Renaissance 16TH Century Flemish Engraver

8.6 Great

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Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer

Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer (c. 1533–1606) was a 16th-century Dutch navigator and cartographer best known for publishing th...

Renaissance Dutch Nautical 16TH Century

8.5 Great

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Pieter Plancius

Pieter Plancius (1552–1622) was a Dutch clergyman, cartographer, and astronomer who played a significant role in early D...

Renaissance Dutch 16TH Century Celestial

8.5 Great

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Gemma Frisius

Gemma Frisius (1508–1555) was a Dutch physician, mathematician, and cartographer who made significant contributions to t...

Renaissance 16TH Century Flemish Globe

8.4 Great

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Peter Apian (Petrus Apianus)

Peter Apian, also known as Petrus Apianus, was a German humanist, mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer active in...

German Renaissance Mathematical 16TH Century

8.2 Great

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Martin Behaim

Martin Behaim was a German textile merchant and navigator best known for creating the Erdapfel, the oldest surviving ter...

German Renaissance 15TH Century Globe

8.1 Great

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Peter Apian

Peter Apian, also known as Petrus Apianus, was a 16th-century German humanist, mathematician, and cartographer. In 1524,...

German Renaissance 16TH Century Cosmography

8.0 Great

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Matthias Ringmann

Matthias Ringmann (1482–1511) was a German humanist scholar and poet of the Renaissance. He collaborated with cartograph...

German Renaissance Humanist 16TH Century

7.7 Good

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Heinrich Bünting

Heinrich Bünting (1545–1606) was a German Protestant theologian and pastor from Hanover. His 1581 work 'Itinerarium Sacr...

German Renaissance 16TH Century Itinerarium

7.1 Good

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Caspar Vopel

Caspar Vopel was a 16th-century German mathematician and cartographer from Cologne who created detailed celestial and te...

German Rhine Regional 16TH Century

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