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Cartography is the study of map making and cartographers are map makers.
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1 Before 1400 2 15th century 3 16th century 4 17th century 5 18th century 6 19th century 7 20th century 8 21st century 9 Cartography organizations 10 See also
Before 1400 Dicaearchus (Greece, circa 350 B.C. - circa 285 B.C. ), philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author
Hipparchus , (Greece, 190 B.C. - 120 B.C. ), astronomer, cartographer, geographer
Isidore of Seville (Spain, 560 - 636)
Ptolemy , (Ptolemaic Egypt, Greece, circa 85 - circa 165), astronomer, cartographer, geographer
Al-Idrisi (Sicily , 1100-1166) Arab cartographer, geographer and traveller.
Petrus Vesconte Genovese cartographer, author of the oldest signed portulan-chart (1311)
15th century Martin Behaim (Germany, 1436 – 1507)
Erhard Etzlaub (1460 – 1532)
Henricus Martellus Germanus (Italy, fl. 1480-1496)
Donnus Nicholas Germanus (Germany, fl. 1460-1475)
Fra Mauro (Venice, c.1459)
Sebastian Münster (Germany, 1488 – 1552)
Piri Reis/Hadji Muhammad (Dardanelles, Ottoman Empire, 1465 – 1554 /1555 )
Hartmann Schedel (Germany, 1440 – 1514)
Amerigo Vespucci (Italy, 1454 – 1512)
Martin Waldseemüller (Germany, c.1470 – c.1521/1522)
Johannes Werner (Germany, 1466 – 1528) refined and promoted the Werner map projection
Diogo Ribeiro (Portugal, ? - Sevilha, 1533) Portuguese cartographer, author of the first known planisphere with a graduated Equator (1527)
16th century Pedro Reinel (? - c. 1542) Portuguese cartographer, author of the oldest signed Portuguese nautical chart
Jorge Reinel (c. 1502 - c. 1572) Portuguese cartographer, son of Pedro Reinel
Peter Apian (1495 - 1552), also known as Peter Bienewitz German geographer and astronomer, author of the Apianus projection
Giovanni Battista Agnese (c. 1500 - 1564) Italian cartogapher, author of numerous nautical atlases
Fernão Vaz Dourado (c. 1520 - c. 1580) Portuguese cartographer of the school initiated by Lopo Homem
Lopo Homem (? - 1565) Portuguese cartographer co-author, with the Reinel family , of the well-known Miller Atlas
Diogo Homem (1521 - 1576) Portuguese cartographer, son of Lopo Homem
Philipp Apian (1531-1589 )
Willem Janszoon Blaeu (Netherlands, 1571 - 1638)
Johannes Blaeu (Netherlands, 1596 - 1673)
Gemma Frisius (or Reiner Gemma, 1508 - 1555)
Martin Heilwig (Germany, 1516 - 1574)
Jodocus Hondius , (Flanders, England, Netherlands, 1563 - 1612)
Henricus Hondius (Netherlands, 1597 - 1651)
Jan Janssonius (Netherlands, 1588 - 1664)
Gerard de Jode (Flanders, 1509 - 1591)
Gerardus Mercator (Flanders, Netherlands, 1512 - 1594)
A. Matthäus Merian (Switzerland, 1593 - 1650)
Abraham Ortelius , (Flanders, 1527 - 1598)
Petrus Plancius , (Netherlands, 1552 - 1622)
Timothy Pont , (Scotland, 1565 - 1614)
John Speed , (England, 1542 - 1629)
Christopher Saxton , (England, born c 1540)
Álvaro Seco (? - ?) Portuguese cartographer, who signed the oldest known map of Portugal, reproduced in various editions of Abraham Ortelius 's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
Luís Teixeira (? - ?) Portuguese cartographer, author of an important Atlas of Brasil
Giovanni Battista Boazio (? - ?) mapped Sir Francis Drake 's voyage to the West Indies and America
17th century John Ogilby (1600 - 1676) English cartographer, best known for his itinerary maps
Giambattista (Giovanni Battista) Albrizzi (Venice, 1698 – 1777), publisher of illustrated books and maps
Vincenzo Coronelli (1650 – 1718)
Guillaume Delisle (1675 – 1726), cartographer
Johann Homann (Germany, 1664 – 1724), geographer
Johannes van Keulen , cartographer, founder of Firm of Van Keulen
Matthäus Merian (Switzerland, 1621 – 1687)
Nicolas Sanson (France, 1600 – 1667)
Robert Morden (England, died 1703)
Peter Schenk (1660 – 1718/1719)
Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Schmettau (died 1743)
Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676 – 1747)
Matthias Seutter (1678 – 1757)
Alain Manesson Mallet (1630 – 1706)
João Teixeira Albernaz (? - ?) Portuguese cartographer, son of Luís Teixeira , who was cosmographer major of the kingdom
Pedro Teixeira Albernaz (c. 1565 - 1662) Portuguese cartographer author of an important atlas of the Iberian Peninsula and a map of Portugal (1656
18th century 19th century John James Abert (1788-1863)
George Bradshaw (1801 - 1853)
Henry Peter Bosse (1844-1903)
Agostino Codazzi (Italy, 1793-1858)
Carl Diercke (1842 - 1913)
Paul Diercke (1874 - 1937)
Matthew Fontaine Maury , (1806-1873) American, USN , oceanographer , meteorologist , cartographer , author , geologist , educator .
Max Eckert-Greifendorff (1868 - 1938)
Hermann Haack (1872 - 1966)
Charles F. Hoffmann
Erwin Raisz (1893 - 1968)
Eduard Imhof (1895 - 1986)
Peter Kozler (Slovenia, 1824 - 1879), lawyer, geographer, politician, manufacturer.
Thomas Moule (England, 1784 - 1851)
John Tallis and Company (England, 1838 - 1851)
Yuly Shokalsky (Russia, 1856 - 1940)
Nicolas Auguste Tissot (France)
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (France)
Philippe Vandermaelen (Belgium, 1795 - 1869)
20th century 21st century Cartography organizations See also
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