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Abraham Cresques was a 14th-century Jewish cartographer based in Majorca. He is best known for his creation of the Catalan Atlas (1375), a remarkably detailed map of the world at that time. This atlas provided one of the earliest and most comprehensive depictions of global geography, including route...
Abraham Cresques was a medieval cartographer born in fourteenth-century Mallorca. He is recognized for his creation of the Catalan Atlas around 1375. This atlas, commissioned by Charles V of France, presented an early and influential depiction of global geography, incorporating knowledge from Arab s...
Angelino Dulcert was a 14th-century cartographer associated with the Majorcan school of mapmaking, a center of cartographic production on the island of Majorca. His 1339 portolan chart is the oldest known portolan — a navigational map based on compass directions and estimated distances — that is bot...
Jehuda Cresques was a Majorcan Jewish cartographer, also known after conversion as Jaume Riba, and a son of the mapmaker Abraham Cresques. He belonged to the Majorcan cartographic tradition that combined Mediterranean nautical charting with geographic and descriptive information. Later accounts conn...
