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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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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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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

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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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Hecataeus of Miletus

Hecataeus of Miletus was an early Greek geographer and logographer who lived during the 6th and 5th centuries BC. He is...

Classical Geography Ancient Greek

8.5 Great

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Jia Dan

Jia Dan was a Chinese scholar, cartographer, and government official who lived during the Tang dynasty in the 8th and ea...

Medieval Chinese 8TH Century World Map

8.5 Great

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Zhu Siben

Zhu Siben (1273–1337) was a Chinese cartographer of the Yuan dynasty who created the "Guangyu Tu," or Enlarged Terrestri...

Medieval Chinese 13TH Century Atlas

8.5 Great

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Pietro Vesconte

Pietro Vesconte was a Genoese cartographer active during the late 13th and early 14th centuries, specifically documented...

Italian Medieval Venetian 14TH Century

8.5 Great

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Al-Masudi

Al-Masudi (c. 896-956 CE) was a 10th-century Arab historian and geographer whose comprehensive work 'Muruj al-Dhahab' (T...

Medieval Islamic 10TH Century Arab

8.4 Great

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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

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Petrus Vesconte

Petrus Vesconte was a Genoese cartographer who was professionally active during the late 13th and early 14th centuries....

Italian Medieval 14TH Century Portolan

8.4 Great

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Ibn Hawqal

Ibn Hawqal was a 10th-century Arab Muslim geographer, traveler, and writer who spent roughly three decades exploring the...

Medieval Islamic 10TH Century Arab

8.3 Great

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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

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Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli

Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (1397–1482) was an Italian mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer from Florence. He is k...

Italian Renaissance 15TH Century World Map

8.3 Great

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Angelino Dulcert

Angelino Dulcert was a 14th-century cartographer associated with the Majorcan school of mapmaking, a center of cartograp...

Italian Medieval 14TH Century Portolan

8.3 Great

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Abu Zayd al-Balkhi

Abu Zayd Ahmad ibn Sahl al-Balkhi was a Persian polymath born in the ninth century near Balkh, in present-day Afghanista...

Medieval Regional Islamic 10TH Century

8.2 Great

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Richard of Haldingham

Richard of Haldingham, also identified as Richard de Bello, is traditionally associated with the creation of the Herefor...

Medieval English Monastery 13TH Century

8.2 Great

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Giovanni Leardo

Giovanni Leardo was a fifteenth-century Venetian cartographer known from several signed circular world maps. His mappae...

Italian Medieval Venetian 15TH Century

7.5 Good

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Andreas Walsperger

Andreas Walsperger was a 15th-century Benedictine monk from the Salzburg region who created a circular world map at Cons...

German Medieval 15TH Century World Map

7.0 Good