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Gerardus Mercator

Gerardus Mercator was a sixteenth-century Flemish cartographer whose work helped shape the way maps represent the world....

Renaissance Projection 16TH Century Atlas

9.06 Excellent

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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

8.92 Great

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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

8.78 Great

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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

8.69 Great

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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

8.62 Great

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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

8.51 Great

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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

8.46 Great

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Jacob van Deventer

Jacob van Deventer (c. 1500–1575) was a Flemish cartographer who is widely regarded as the first systematic surveyor of...

Renaissance Dutch Netherlands 16TH Century

8.43 Great

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Waldseemüller collaborator Matthias Ringmann

Matthias Ringmann (1482–1511) was a German humanist and scholar in early 16th-century Strasbourg. He collaborated with c...

German 16TH Century New World Alsatian

8.43 Great

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Pierre Desceliers

Pierre Desceliers (c. 1487–c. 1553) was a French priest and cartographer based in Dieppe, Normandy, and is considered th...

French Renaissance 16TH Century Portolan

8.24 Great

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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

8.21 Great

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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

8.18 Great

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Martin Behaim

Martin Behaim was a German textile merchant and navigator best known for creating the Erdapfel, the oldest surviving ter...

German Renaissance 15TH Century Globe

8.12 Great

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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

7.96 Good

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Christopher Saxton

Christopher Saxton was a 16th-century English cartographer known for producing the first comprehensive atlas of England...

England Renaissance English 16TH Century

7.96 Good

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Johann Schöner

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

German Renaissance 16TH Century Nuremberg

7.91 Good

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Sebastian Münster

Sebastian Münster was a German cartographer, cosmographer, Hebraist, and Christian scholar of the Renaissance. His Cosmo...

German Renaissance 16TH Century Atlas

7.87 Good

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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

7.72 Good

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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

7.12 Good

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Walther Ryff

German physician and 16th-century compiler who published vernacular works on medicine and geography in Strasbourg, adapt...

German Renaissance 16TH Century Architect

5.54 Mediocre