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Giovanni Antonio Magini was an Italian astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, and cartographer who taught at the University of Bologna. He produced an influential edition of Ptolemy's Geography and undertook a detailed atlas of the Italian states based on regional maps and surveys. The completed atl...
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First comprehensive printed atlas of Italy achieved lasting historical importance, combining regional sources into an influential national cartographic synthesis.
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Claudius Clavus, also known as Claudius Claussøn Swart (1388-?), was a Danish geographer and cartographer active in the early 15th century. He is recognized for creating some of the earliest European maps to include detailed representations of Greenland and Iceland, drawing from both classical sourc...
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Historically important early Nordic mapping and pioneering depiction of Greenland; limited surviving work and modest recognition outside specialist scholarship.
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