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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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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

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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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Juan de la Cosa

Juan de la Cosa was a Spanish navigator and cartographer who created the 1500 Mappa Mundi, the earliest surviving map to...

Spanish Renaissance New World 15TH Century

8.8 Great

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Vincenzo Maria Coronelli

Vincenzo Maria Coronelli was a 17th-century Italian Franciscan friar and cartographer famous for creating two massive te...

Italian 17TH Century Early Modern Atlas

8.8 Great

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Abraham Cresques

Abraham Cresques was a 14th-century Jewish cartographer from Majorca who created the famous Catalan Atlas in 1375 for Ch...

Medieval 14TH Century Majorcan Catalan Jewish

8.8 Great

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Giacomo Gastaldi

Giacomo Gastaldi was a 16th-century Italian cartographer who pioneered the use of copperplate engraving for maps, produc...

Italian Renaissance 16TH Century Venetian

8.7 Great

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Pedro Reinel

Pedro Reinel was a 16th-century Portuguese cartographer who created the first known signed portolan chart of the Indian...

Renaissance Atlantic Portuguese 15TH Century

8.6 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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Al-Masudi

Al-Masudi was a 10th-century Arab historian and geographer whose comprehensive work Muruj al-Dhahab documented lands fro...

Medieval Islamic 10TH Century Arab

8.4 Great

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Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli

Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli was a 15th-century Italian mathematician whose 1474 world map concept inspired Christopher Co...

Italian Renaissance 15TH Century World Map

8.3 Great

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Fernão Vaz Dourado

Fernão Vaz Dourado was a 16th-century Portuguese cartographer renowned for his highly detailed and decorated manuscript...

Renaissance 16TH Century Portuguese Atlas

8.3 Great

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Angelino Dulcert

Angelino Dulcert was a 14th-century cartographer known for his 1339 portolan chart, which is the oldest known map signed...

Italian Medieval 14TH Century Portolan

8.3 Great

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Benincasa Grazioso

Grazioso Benincasa was a 15th-century Italian cartographer whose detailed manuscript portolan atlases and charts expertl...

Italian Medieval Adriatic 15TH Century

8.2 Great

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Jehuda Cresques

Jehuda Cresques, son of Abraham Cresques, was a Majorcan cartographer who directed the Portuguese nautical chart worksho...

Medieval 14TH Century Portolan Majorcan

8.2 Great

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Albino de Canepa

Albino de Canepa was a 15th-century Genoese cartographer notable for his 1489 manuscript portolan chart, which provided...

Italian Medieval 15TH Century Portolan

7.5 Good

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Giovanni Leardo

Giovanni Leardo was a 15th-century Venetian mapmaker notable for producing several surviving mappaemundi, including the...

Italian Medieval Venetian 15TH Century

7.5 Good

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Pietro Coppo

Pietro Coppo was a 16th-century Italian geographer whose early 1500s maps and isolarios provided some of the earliest de...

Italian Renaissance 16TH Century Venetian

7.2 Good

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Ptolemy translator Jacopo d'Angelo

Jacopo d'Angelo was an Italian scholar who translated Ptolemy's Geography into Latin in 1406, significantly influencing...

Italian Renaissance Medieval 15TH Century

6.0 Fair