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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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Jack Dangermond

Jack Dangermond is a prominent American cartographer and entrepreneur. He co-established Esri in 1969, pioneering digita...

American 20TH Century Digital Gis

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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Waldo Tobler

Waldo Tobler (1909-1983) was a prominent American geographer renowned for his contributions to cartography and geography...

American 20TH Century Gis First Law

9.5 Brilliant

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Edward Tufte

Edward Tufte is a prominent American cartographer and visual display expert. He advocates for clear, concise graphics th...

American Contemporary Statistical Graphics Visual Display

9.5 Brilliant

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Arthur Robinson

Arthur Robinson was a 20th-century American cartographer best known for developing the Robinson projection in 1963. This...

American 20TH Century Projection National Geographic

9.4 Excellent

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David Thompson

David Thompson was a 18th-century cartographer employed by the Hudson’s Bay Company. He undertook extensive surveying an...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Northwest

9.3 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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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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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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John Mitchell

John Mitchell was an 18th-century cartographer specializing in colonial North America. He produced significant maps, mos...

18TH Century American Colonial North America

8.8 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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Alejandro Malaspina

Alessandro Malaspina (1754–1810), known in Spanish as Alejandro Malaspina, was an Italian-born naval officer and explore...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Pacific

8.5 Great

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Lewis Evans

Lewis Evans (1700–1756) was a Welsh-born American surveyor and cartographer who produced foundational maps of the Britis...

18TH Century American Survey Colonial

7.8 Good

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Andrew Ellicott

Andrew Ellicott (1754-1820) was a prominent American surveyor responsible for several major boundary and territorial sur...

18TH Century American Enlightenment Surveyor

7.8 Good

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John Charles Frémont

John Charles Frémont (1813-1890) was an American explorer, military officer, politician, and cartographer associated wit...

Exploration American Survey 19TH Century

7.5 Good

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Jedidiah Morse

Jedidiah Morse was an American Congregational minister, geographer, and author who lived from 1761 to 1826. His Geograph...

18TH Century American Geography Atlas

7.5 Good

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Thomas Hutchins

Thomas Hutchins (1730–1789) was an American surveyor, cartographer, and geographer who played a vital role in mapping th...

18TH Century American Enlightenment Geographer Of The Us

7.4 Good

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William Darby

American geographer and cartographer (1775–1854) who produced some of the earliest detailed maps of Louisiana and the Un...

18TH Century American Survey Atlas

6.5 Fair