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Johann Heinrich Lambert

Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728–1777) was a Swiss-German polymath who made significant contributions to mathematics, physi...

German 18TH Century Mathematical Projection

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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

8.79 Great

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J.B. Harley

John Brian Harley was a British geographer and historian of cartography who lived from 1932 to 1991. He is best known fo...

20TH Century British Critical Theory Theoretical

8.72 Great

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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

8.69 Great

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Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres

Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres (1721-1824) was a Swiss-born military engineer and cartographer who served in the Brit...

18TH Century Nautical Enlightenment British Canadian

8.58 Great

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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

8.51 Great

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Guillaume Delisle

Guillaume Delisle was a 18th-century French cartographer whose meticulous work significantly advanced mapmaking techniqu...

18TH Century French Accuracy Scientific

8.46 Great

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John Mitchell (1711–1768)

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18TH Century North America Enlightenment American Colonial

8.42 Great

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Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville

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18TH Century French Accuracy Atlas

8.37 Great

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George Everest

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19TH Century British Geodesy Triangulation

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Jacques-Dominique Cassini

Jacques-Dominique Cassini (1748–1845), also known as Cassini IV, was a French astronomer and cartographer who served as...

18TH Century French Enlightenment National Survey

8.34 Great

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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

8.33 Great

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César-François Cassini de Thury

César-François Cassini de Thury was a French cartographer active in the 18th century. He led the ambitious national surv...

18TH Century French France Triangulation

8.28 Great

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Danny Dorling

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Contemporary Statistical British Cartogram

8.25 Great

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Gerard van Keulen

Gerard van Keulen was a Dutch cartographer, engraver, and publisher who led the Van Keulen firm in Amsterdam during the...

18TH Century Dutch Golden Age Nautical

8.22 Great

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Carl Brandan Mollweide

Carl Brandan Mollweide was a German mathematician and astronomer active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Worki...

German 18TH Century Mathematical Projection

8.21 Great

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Giovanni Antonio Rizzi-Zannoni

Giovanni Antonio Rizzi-Zannoni was an 18th-century Italian cartographer renowned for his detailed topographic maps of Eu...

Military 18TH Century Italian Naples

8.19 Great

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Henry Popple

Henry Popple was an English cartographer active in the early 18th century who is best known for creating "A Map of the B...

18TH Century British Colonial America

7.68 Good

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Samuel Holland

Samuel Holland was a Dutch-born British military engineer and surveyor who became the first Surveyor General of British...

18TH Century Survey British Colonial

7.64 Good

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John Senex

John Senex (c. 1678–1740) was a prominent English cartographer, engraver, and publisher of maps and globes. Elected a Fe...

18TH Century British Atlas Publisher

7.42 Good