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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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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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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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J. Brian Harley

J. Brian Harley was a 20th-century English academic and cartographer. He established critical cartography, asserting tha...

Academic 20TH Century Critical English

9.2 Excellent

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David Woodward

David Woodward was an American academic cartographer associated with the University of Wisconsin. He is primarily known...

American Academic 20TH Century History Of Cartography

9.2 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 (1797–1884) was a German geographer who created a groundbreaking physical atlas that visually depicted...

German 19TH Century Thematic Physical Atlas

8.8 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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Max Eckert-Greifendorff

German cartographer (1868–1938) who devised six cylindrical map projections (Eckert I–VI) in 1906 and authored foundatio...

German Academic 19TH Century Projection

8.4 Great

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Heinrich Kiepert

German cartographer (1818–1899) renowned for precise historical and classical maps of the ancient world, produced primar...

German Academic 19TH Century Atlas

8.4 Great

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Joseph Meyer

German publisher (1796–1856) who founded the Bibliographisches Institut and produced geographic atlases alongside his la...

German 19TH Century Encyclopedia Publisher

8.0 Great

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Johann Matthias Hase

Johann Matthias Hase was an 18th-century German cartographer and mathematician who produced highly accurate maps for the...

German 18TH Century Academic Atlas

7.8 Good

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Karl von Spruner

Bavarian military officer and cartographer (1803–1892) best known for the Spruner-Menke Historisch-geographischer Hand-A...

German Academic 19TH Century Medieval

7.8 Good

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Johann Georg Kohl

German geographer (1808–1878) who assembled a landmark collection of historical maps of America, later deposited at the...

German 19TH Century America Thematic

7.8 Good

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Carl Flemming

German cartographic publisher based in Glogau, active mid-19th century, producing school atlases and wall maps widely di...

German 19TH Century Atlas Publisher

7.5 Good

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Andree Richard

German geographer (1835–1912) who edited Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas, first published in 1881 and recognized as one of...

German 19TH Century Thematic Publisher

7.5 Good

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Wolfgang Scharfe

German cartographic historian and Free University of Berlin professor known for research on the history of German cartog...

German Academic 20TH Century Berlin

7.5 Good

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Felix W. Lampe

Felix W. Lampe was a prominent German cartographer known for his leadership at the Justus Perthes geographical publishin...

German Academic 20TH Century Cartographic Theory

6.5 Fair