Best Cosmographer
Michael Florent van Langren (1598–1675) was a Flemish cartographer and astronomer who served the Spanish crown. He is recognized for producing early, detailed maps of the Moon's surface. In 1644, he published a diagram plotting the longitudinal distance between Toledo and Rome, which is considered o...
Bartolomeu Velho was a Portuguese cartographer and cosmographer active during the mid-16th century. He produced several highly decorative portolan charts and atlases that documented the expanding geographic knowledge of the Age of Discovery. His 1561 world map notably included contemporary Portugues...
French Franciscan friar and royal cosmographer (1516–1590) who authored La Cosmographie universelle (1575) and travel accounts of Brazil based on personal voyages to the Americas.
