swap_horiz Martin Waldseemüller Alternatives

1

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

2

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

3

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

4

Diego Ribeiro

Diego Ribeiro was a Portuguese cartographer and cosmographer who served the Spanish Crown in the early sixteenth century...

16TH Century Portuguese World Map Spanish Service

8.9 Great

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

Johann Schöner

Johann Schöner was a German mathematician, astronomer, cartographer, instrument maker, and printer active during the Ren...

German Renaissance 16TH Century Nuremberg

8.6 Great

10

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

11

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

12

Diogo Ribeiro

Diogo Ribeiro was a 16th-century Portuguese cartographer and explorer who worked extensively for the Spanish Crown. He s...

Renaissance 16TH Century Portuguese World Map

8.4 Great

13

Henricus Martellus

Henricus Martellus was a German cartographer active in Florence, Italy, during the late 15th century. He is best known f...

German Renaissance 15TH Century World Map

8.3 Great

14

Henricus Martellus Germanus

Henricus Martellus Germanus was a German cartographer active in Florence during the late 15th century. He is known for c...

German Renaissance Florence 15TH Century

8.2 Great

15

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

16

Sebastian Cabot

Sebastian Cabot was a 16th-century navigator, cartographer, and explorer who held both Venetian and English heritage. Bo...

Exploration Renaissance 16TH Century World Map

8.0 Great

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

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