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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

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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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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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Harry Beck

Harry Beck is a cartographer renowned for his innovative design of the London Underground map. Created in 1933, this sch...

20TH Century English Schematic Transit Map

9.4 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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Cresques Abraham

Abraham Cresques was a 14th-century Jewish cartographer based in Majorca. He is best known for his creation of the Catal...

Medieval Catalan 14TH Century Majorcan

9.2 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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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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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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George Vancouver

George Vancouver was an English cartographer and Royal Navy officer instrumental in charting the Pacific Coast during th...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Pacific Coast

8.8 Great

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Abraham Cresques

Abraham Cresques was a medieval cartographer born in fourteenth-century Mallorca. He is recognized for his creation of t...

Medieval 14TH Century Majorcan Catalan Jewish

8.8 Great

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Christopher Saxton

Christopher Saxton was a 16th-century English cartographer who produced the first comprehensive atlas of England and Wal...

England Renaissance English 16TH Century

8.7 Great

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Jia Dan

Jia Dan was a 8th-century Chinese cartographer and scholar notable for creating the Hainei Huayi Tu, an extensive map of...

Medieval Chinese 8TH Century World Map

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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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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Charles Booth

British social reformer (1840–1916) who produced detailed color-coded poverty maps of London in the 1890s, documenting l...

Social 19TH Century English Thematic

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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Pietro Vesconte

Genoese cartographer active c. 1310–1330 who is among the earliest known professional mapmakers, producing detailed port...

Italian Medieval Venetian 14TH Century

8.5 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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Evesham World Map author

The anonymous creator of the Evesham World Map, produced circa 1390 in England, is notable for incorporating both biblic...

Medieval English Monastery 13TH Century

5.0 Mediocre