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Gerardus Mercator

Gerardus Mercator was a prominent 16th-century Flemish cartographer renowned for developing the Mercator projection. Thi...

Renaissance Projection 16TH Century Atlas

9.9 Brilliant

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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

9.7 Brilliant

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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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Eduard Imhof

Eduard Imhof was a Swiss cartographer active throughout the 20th century. He is particularly recognized for pioneering i...

Swiss 20TH Century Terrain Relief Shading

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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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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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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Roger Tomlinson

Roger Tomlinson is a Canadian cartographer renowned for his creation of the Canada Land Inventory and the development of...

Canadian 20TH Century Digital Gis

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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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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Pei Xiu

Pei Xiu was a prominent Chinese cartographer during the 3rd century. He developed and codified the first systematic grid...

Ancient Chinese 3RD Century Grid Map

9.3 Excellent

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Marinus of Tyre

Marinus of Tyre was a 2nd-century Roman cartographer renowned for developing the first known world map utilizing latitud...

Classical Ancient Roman Projection

9.0 Excellent

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Hecataeus of Miletus

Hecataeus of Miletus was an early Greek geographer whose 6th-century BC work Periodos Ges created one of the first known...

Classical Geography Ancient Greek

8.5 Great

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Abu Zayd al-Balkhi

Abu Zayd al-Balkhi was a 9th-century Persian scholar who founded the Balkhi school of Islamic geography and created the...

Medieval Regional Islamic 10TH Century

8.2 Great

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Pomponius Mela

Pomponius Mela was a 1st-century Roman geographer who wrote De Situ Orbis, the earliest surviving geographical treatise...

Classical Geography Ancient Roman

8.1 Great

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Gilles Robert de Vaugondy

Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1688–1766) was a leading French cartographer known for publishing a major influential world a...

18TH Century French Geography Atlas

8.1 Great

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Didier Robert de Vaugondy

Didier Robert de Vaugondy (1723–1786) was a French cartographer who succeeded his father and was appointed the royal geo...

18TH Century French Geography Atlas

7.8 Good

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Jedidiah Morse

American minister and geographer (1761–1826) called 'the Father of American Geography' for authoring the first geography...

18TH Century American Geography Atlas

7.5 Good

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Jean-Baptiste-Louis Clouet

Jean-Baptiste-Louis Clouet was an 18th-century French cartographer who served as geographer to the King of Poland and pr...

18TH Century French Geography Atlas

7.0 Good