List of cartographers

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Cartography is the study of map making and cartographers are map makers.

Before 1400

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Modern rendering of Anaximander's 6th century BC world map
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Ptolemy's 150 CE world map (as redrawn in the 15th century)

15th century

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First world map of Piri Reis
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Martin Behaim's 1492 world map

16th century

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Battista Agnese's 1544 world map
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Jodocus Hondius' Leo Belgicus (1611)
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Gerardus Mercator's 1587 world map
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World map from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius

17th century

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Willem Blaeu and Johannes Blaeu's 1606–1626 world map
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Herman Moll's A new map of the whole world with the trade winds (1736)
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Frederik de Wit's 1670 world map

18th century

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Jacques-Nicolas Bellin: Carte réduite de l'océan septentrional..., from: L'hydrographie françoise, Paris 1766
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Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville: Troisième partie de la carte d'Asie, contenant la Sibérie, et quelques autres parties de la Tartarie, Paris (1753)
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Plan du Jardin & Vue des Maisons de Chiswick, 1736, by John Rocque V&A Museum no. E.352-1944
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A survey of Boston Harbor from Atlantic Neptune by Colonel Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres

19th century

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Abraham Bradley's U.S. postal route map of 1804
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Moule's map of the hundreds of Monmouthshire, c. 1831
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A 1912 map of the Russian Empire by Yuly Shokalsky

20th century

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George Comer's 1913 map of Southampton Island
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A Robinson projection of the Earth

See also

References

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