List of cartographers

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

Before 1400

Modern rendering of Anaximander's 6th century BC world map
Ptolemy's 150 CE world map (as redrawn in the 15th century)
  • Anaximander, Greek Anatolia (610 BC–546 BC), first to attempt making a map of the known world
  • Hecataeus of Miletus, Greek Anatolia (550 BC–476 BC), geographer, cartographer, and early ethnographer
  • Dicaearchus, Magna Graecia (c. 350 BC–285 BC), philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author
  • Ende, Spain (c. 1000 AD), illustrator, cartographer, nun
  • Eratosthenes, Ptolemaic Egypt (276 BC–194 BC), Greek scientist, mathematician, geographer, and cartographer
  • Gyōki, Japan (668–749), Buddhist monk, cartographer, surveyor, and civil engineer,
  • Hipparchus, Greek Anatolia (190 BC–120 BC), astronomer, cartographer, geographer
  • Liu An, China (179 BC–122 BC), geographer, cartographer, author of the Huainanzi
  • Marinus of Tyre, Roman Syria (c. AD 70–130), Greek[1] geographer, cartographer and mathematician, who founded mathematical geography
  • Ptolemy, Ptolemaic Egypt (c. 85–165), Greek astronomer, cartographer, and geographer
  • Pei Xiu (224–271), Chinese geographer and cartographer
  • Isidore of Seville, Hispania (560–636)
  • al-Khwārazmī, Caliphate (9th century), Persian cartographer, geographer, and polymath.
  • Su Song, China (1020–1101), horologist and engineer; as a Song dynasty diplomat, he used his knowledge of cartography and map-making to solve territorial border disputes with the rival Liao dynasty
  • Shen Kuo, China (1031–1095), polymath scientist and statesman, author of the Dream Pool Essays, which included a large atlas of China and foreign regions, and also made a three-dimensional raised-relief map
  • al-Idrisi, Sicily (1100–1166), Arab cartographer, geographer and traveller
  • Maximus Planudes, Byzantine Empire (13th century), a monk credited with restoring the texts and maps of Ptolemy
  • Petrus Vesconte, Genoese cartographer, author of the oldest signed Portolan chart (1311)
  • Angelino Dulcert (14th century), author of the earliest known Majorcan portolan charts of the Mediterranean

15th century

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

16th century

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

17th century

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

18th century

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

19th century

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

20th century

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

See also

References

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  6. ^ John Senex
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