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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

2

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

3

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

4

Guillaume Delisle

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

18TH Century French Accuracy Scientific

9.2 Excellent

5

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville was a prominent 18th-century French cartographer renowned for meticulous mapmaking....

18TH Century French Accuracy Atlas

9.1 Excellent

6

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

7

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

9.0 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

10

Ino Tadataka

Ino Tadataka was a 18th and early 19th-century Japanese cartographer. He undertook Japan’s first comprehensive national...

18TH Century Japan Japanese National Survey

8.8 Great

11

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

12

Johann Heinrich Lambert

Swiss-German mathematician (1728–1777) who devised multiple influential map projections, including the Lambert conformal...

German 18TH Century Mathematical Projection

8.8 Great

13

J.B. Harley

British historian of cartography (1932–1991) who pioneered a critical, deconstructionist approach analyzing maps as poli...

20TH Century British Critical Theory Theoretical

8.7 Great

14

Johann Baptist Homann

Johann Baptist Homann (1664–1724) was a German geographer who founded a major map publishing firm that dominated the Eur...

German 18TH Century Atlas Publisher

8.6 Great

15

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin was an 18th-century French hydrographer who produced over 800 maps for the French Navy, notably c...

18TH Century French Naval Hydrographer

8.6 Great

16

Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres

Swiss-born British military surveyor who produced The Atlantic Neptune (1774–1784), a landmark maritime atlas of North A...

18TH Century Nautical Enlightenment British Canadian

8.6 Great

17

George Everest

British surveyor-general of India (1790–1866) who directed the Great Trigonometrical Survey of the subcontinent; the wor...

19TH Century British Geodesy Triangulation

8.4 Great

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Samuel Holland

Samuel Holland was a Dutch-born British surveyor who became the first Surveyor General of British North America, produci...

18TH Century Survey British Colonial

8.3 Great

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Henry Popple

English cartographer who produced A Map of the British Empire in America in 1733, one of the largest and most detailed m...

18TH Century British Colonial America

7.7 Good

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John Senex

English cartographer, engraver, and publisher (c.1678–1740) elected Fellow of the Royal Society, known for producing glo...

18TH Century British Atlas Publisher

7.4 Good