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List of cartographers
Cartography
is the study of map making and
cartographers
are map makers.
Some important early and famous cartographers:
Martin Behaim
, (1436-1507)
Joan Blaeu[?]
Guillaume Delisle
, (1675-1726), cartographer
Frederick DeWitt[?]
Johann Friedrich Endersch
(Germany, fl.
1755
)
Martin Heilwig
(Germany,
1516
-
1574
)
Zacharias Heym[?]
Johann Homann
, (Germany,
1664
-
1724
), geographer
Henricus Hondius[?]
Jodocus Hondius[?]
, (1563-1612)
Hipparchus
, (Greece,
190 B.C.
-
120 B.C.
), astronomer, cartographer, geographer
Eduard Imhof[?]
(
1895
-
1986
)
Isidore of Seville
(Spain,
560
-
636
)
Jan Janssonius
(Norway ?,
1588
-
1664
)
Thomas Jefferys[?]
Peter Kozler
, (Slovenia,
1824
-
1879
), lawyer, geographer, politician, manufacturer.
Gerardus Mercator
(Belgium, Netherlands,
1512
-
1594
)
A. Matthäus Merian
(Switzerland,
1593
-
1650
)
Matthäus Merian
(Switzerland,
1621
-
1687
)
Sebastian Muenster
(Germany,
1488
-
1552
)
Abraham Ortelius
, (Belgium,
1527
-
1598
), Belgian cartographer
Ptolemy
, (Ptolemaic Egypt, Greece, circa
85
- circa
165
), astronomer, cartographer, geographer
Hartmann Schedel
(Germany)
John Speed
(England,
1542
-
1629
)
Martin Waldseemüller
(Germany, circa
1470
- circa
1521
/
1522
)
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