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Olaus Magnus

Olaus Magnus was a Swedish Catholic ecclesiastic and writer whose work documented northern Europe's geography and tradit...

Scandinavian Swedish 16TH Century Sea Monsters

9.12 Excellent

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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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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

8.86 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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Jan Huyghen van Linschoten

Jan Huyghen van Linschoten was a 16th-century Dutch merchant, explorer, and cartographer whose work played a crucial rol...

Asia Dutch Explorer Nautical

8.67 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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Giovanni Battista Agnese

Giovanni Battista Agnese was an influential cartographer of the 16th century who produced some of the most highly regard...

Italian Vellum 16TH Century Atlas

8.54 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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Semyon Remezov

Semyon Remezov (c. 1642–after 1720) was a Russian cartographer, geographer, and historian based in Tobolsk, Siberia. He...

Russian Manuscript 17TH Century Atlas

8.34 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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Giovanni Magini

Giovanni Antonio Magini was an Italian astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, and cartographer who taught at the Univers...

Italian Italy 16TH Century Atlas

8.21 Great

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Diogo Homem

Diogo Homem was a 16th-century Portuguese cartographer born into a prominent family of mapmakers, including his father,...

Atlantic Nautical 16TH Century Portuguese

8.18 Great

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Timothy Pont

Timothy Pont (c. 1565–1614) was a Scottish cartographer who produced the earliest detailed manuscript maps of Scotland,...

Manuscript Golden Age Scottish 16TH Century

8.06 Great

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Luis Teixeira

Luís Teixeira was a 16th-century Portuguese cartographer whose work significantly advanced European mapping of the Atlan...

Manuscript Brazil 16TH Century Portuguese

7.72 Good

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Sebastião Lopes

Sebastião Lopes was a 16th-century Portuguese cartographer known for producing detailed portolan charts that significant...

Manuscript Atlantic 16TH Century Portuguese

6.88 Fair