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Olaus Magnus

Olaus Magnus was a Swedish Catholic ecclesiastic and writer whose work documented northern Europe's geography and tradit...

Scandinavian Swedish 16TH Century Sea Monsters

9.12 Excellent

2

Gerardus Mercator

Gerardus Mercator was a sixteenth-century Flemish cartographer whose work helped shape the way maps represent the world....

Renaissance Projection 16TH Century Atlas

9.06 Excellent

3

Abraham Ortelius

Abraham Ortelius was a prominent Flemish cartographer of the Renaissance era. He is best known for creating the *Theatru...

Renaissance 16TH Century Atlas Flemish

8.92 Great

4

Diego Ribeiro

Diego Ribeiro was a Portuguese cartographer and cosmographer who served the Spanish Crown in the early sixteenth century...

16TH Century Portuguese World Map Spanish Service

8.86 Great

5

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

8.84 Great

6

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

7

Georg Braun

Georg Braun was a German Catholic cleric and geographer of the Renaissance period. He is best known as the principal edi...

German Renaissance 16TH Century Civitates Orbis Terrarum

8.78 Great

8

August Petermann

August Heinrich Petermann (1822–1878) was a German cartographer renowned for advancing thematic and polar cartography. I...

German 19TH Century Polar Thematic

8.71 Great

9

Martin Waldseemüller

Martin Waldseemüller was a 16th-century German cartographer renowned for his meticulous and innovative maps. His 1507 wo...

German Renaissance 16TH Century World Map

8.69 Great

10

Jan Huyghen van Linschoten

Jan Huyghen van Linschoten was a 16th-century Dutch merchant, explorer, and cartographer whose work played a crucial rol...

Asia Dutch Explorer Nautical

8.67 Great

11

Waldseemüller collaborator Matthias Ringmann

Matthias Ringmann (1482–1511) was a German humanist and scholar in early 16th-century Strasbourg. He collaborated with c...

German 16TH Century New World Alsatian

8.43 Great

12

Peter Apian (Petrus Apianus)

Peter Apian, also known as Petrus Apianus, was a German humanist, mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer active in...

German Renaissance Mathematical 16TH Century

8.18 Great

13

Johann Schöner

Johann Schöner was a German mathematician, astronomer, cartographer, instrument maker, and printer active during the Ren...

German Renaissance 16TH Century Nuremberg

7.91 Good

14

Sebastian Münster

Sebastian Münster was a German cartographer, cosmographer, Hebraist, and Christian scholar of the Renaissance. His Cosmo...

German Renaissance 16TH Century Atlas

7.87 Good

15

Matthias Ringmann

Matthias Ringmann (1482–1511) was a German humanist scholar and poet of the Renaissance. He collaborated with cartograph...

German Renaissance Humanist 16TH Century

7.72 Good

16

Peter Apian

Peter Apian, also known as Petrus Apianus, was a 16th-century German humanist, mathematician, and cartographer. In 1524,...

German Renaissance 16TH Century Cosmography

7.36 Good

17

Caspar Vopel

Caspar Vopel was a 16th-century German mathematician and cartographer from Cologne who created detailed celestial and te...

German Rhine Regional 16TH Century

7.13 Good

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Heinrich Bünting

Heinrich Bünting (1545–1606) was a German Protestant theologian and pastor from Hanover. His 1581 work 'Itinerarium Sacr...

German Renaissance 16TH Century Itinerarium

7.12 Good

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Luís Jorge de Barbuda

Luís Jorge de Barbuda was a Portuguese cartographer active in the 16th century and associated with the service of the Sp...

Iberia Regional 16TH Century Portuguese

6.97 Fair

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Walther Ryff

German physician and 16th-century compiler who published vernacular works on medicine and geography in Strasbourg, adapt...

German Renaissance 16TH Century Architect

5.54 Mediocre