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William Hack was an English chart maker active in the late seventeenth century and associated with the Thames School of manuscript cartography. He copied and arranged sailing information obtained from Spanish sources captured by the buccaneer Bartholomew Sharp, producing manuscript charts and atlases of the Pacific coasts of the Americas and other regions. His Buccaneer's Atlas contains coastlines, settlements, landmarks, harbor directions, shoals, distances, and notes about wrecks and voyages ([Library of Congress](https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2020/08/william-hacke-a-pirates-cartographer/)).
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Who was William Hack?
William Hack was an English chart maker active in the late seventeenth century. He was associated with the Thames School of manuscript cartography.
How did William Hack obtain much of his chart information?
Hack copied and arranged sailing information obtained from Spanish sources captured by the buccaneer Bartholomew Sharp. Those materials helped him produce detailed manuscript charts of maritime regions.
What is the Thames School of manuscript cartography?
The Thames School was a group of English manuscript map and chart makers working around the River Thames. William Hack is one of the best-known figures associated with this late seventeenth-century tradition.
What did William Hack make?
He produced manuscript charts by organizing navigational and geographic information into practical sailing materials. His work is especially linked to information taken from captured Spanish sources.
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