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James Cook

James Cook was an English cartographer and explorer active in the 18th century. His detailed surveys of the Pacific Ocea...

18TH Century Exploration Survey English

9.6 Brilliant

2

William Smith

William Smith was a prominent 18th and 19th-century English cartographer whose meticulous work revolutionized geological...

18TH Century English Geological Map Stratigraphy

9.5 Brilliant

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David Thompson

David Thompson was a 18th-century cartographer employed by the Hudson’s Bay Company. He undertook extensive surveying an...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Northwest

9.3 Excellent

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Guillaume Delisle

Guillaume Delisle was a 18th-century French cartographer whose meticulous work significantly advanced mapmaking techniqu...

18TH Century French Accuracy Scientific

9.2 Excellent

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Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville was a prominent 18th-century French cartographer renowned for meticulous mapmaking....

18TH Century French Accuracy Atlas

9.1 Excellent

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Matthew Flinders

Matthew Flinders was an English cartographer renowned for his detailed surveys of Australia during the late 18th century...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Australia

9.1 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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Aaron Arrowsmith

Aaron Arrowsmith was an 18th-century English cartographer renowned for his meticulously crafted large format atlases and...

18TH Century Exploration Large Format English

8.9 Great

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John Mitchell

John Mitchell (1711–1768) was a British-American botanist who created a highly influential 1755 map of eastern North Ame...

18TH Century American Colonial North America

8.8 Great

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Ino Tadataka

Japanese surveyor (1745–1818) who conducted the first modern geodetic survey of Japan, producing the first accurate maps...

18TH Century Japan Japanese National Survey

8.8 Great

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George Vancouver

George Vancouver was a British Royal Navy officer who led an exhaustive 1790s maritime expedition that charted the highl...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Pacific Coast

8.8 Great

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Johann Baptist Homann

Johann Baptist Homann (1664–1724) was a German geographer who founded a major map publishing firm that dominated the Eur...

German 18TH Century Atlas Publisher

8.6 Great

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Jacques-Nicolas Bellin

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin was an 18th-century French hydrographer who produced over 800 maps for the French Navy, notably c...

18TH Century French Naval Hydrographer

8.6 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

15

Thomas Jefferys

Thomas Jefferys (1719–1771) was an English cartographer who served as Geographer to King George III and became famous fo...

18TH Century English North America Atlas

8.5 Great

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Phyllis Pearsall

Phyllis Pearsall was a British cartographer who founded the Geographers' A-Z Map Company and published the first London...

London 20TH Century English Street Atlas

8.5 Great

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Alejandro Malaspina

Alejandro Malaspina was an Italian-born Spanish naval officer who led a major scientific expedition between 1789 and 179...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Pacific

8.5 Great

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Tobias Mayer

Tobias Mayer (1723–1762) was a German astronomer whose precise lunar tables significantly improved the calculation of lo...

German 18TH Century Geodesy Astronomer

8.4 Great

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Robert Wilkinson

Robert Wilkinson was a late 18th-century British map publisher known for his General Atlas of the World, which provided...

18TH Century London English Atlas

6.8 Fair

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Richard William Seale

Richard William Seale was an 18th-century English cartographer and engraver who produced important maps for historical w...

18TH Century London English Atlas

6.5 Fair