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

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Before 1400

15th century

16th century

17th century

18th century

19th century

20th century

21st century

Cartography organizations

See also

References

Before 1400

★ 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, Greece (circa 350 BC-285 BC), philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author

★ Eratosthenes, Ptolemaic Egypt, (276 BC-194 BC) a Greek scientist, mathematician, geographer, and cartographer

★ Hipparchus, Greece, (190 BC-120 BC), astronomer, cartographer, geographer

★ Isidore of Seville, Spain (560-636)

★ Al-Idrisi, Sicily (1100-1166), Arab cartographer, geographer and traveller.

★ Liu An, China (179 BC-122 BC), geographer, cartographer, author of the ''Huainanzi''

★ Marinus of Tyre (ca. 70 - 130 A.D.) was a Phoenician geographer, cartographer and mathematician, who founded mathematical geography.

★ Ptolemy, Ptolemaic Egypt, (circa 85-165), a Greek astronomer, cartographer, geographer

★ Petrus Vesconte, Genovese cartographer, author of the oldest signed Portolan chart (1311)

★ Shen Kuo, China (1031-1095), a 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.

★ 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

15th century

★ Martin Behaim (Germany, 1436 – 1507)

★ Benedetto Bordone Italy (1460 - 1551)

★ Erhard Etzlaub (1460 – 1532)

★ Henricus Martellus Germanus (Italy, fl. 1480-1496)

★ Donnus Nicholas Germanus (Germany, fl. 1460-1475)

★ Fra Mauro (Venice, c.1459)

★ Piri Reis/Hadji Muhammad (Dardanelles, Ottoman Empire, 1465 – 1554/1555)

★ Johannes Ruysch (Netherlands, c 1466 - 1530) explorer, cartographer, astronomer, manuscript illustrator and painter

★ 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''

16th century

★ Giovanni Battista Agnese (c. 1500 - 1564) Italian cartogapher, author of numerous nautical atlases

★ Peter Apian (1495 - 1552), also known as Peter Bienewitz German geographer and astronomer, author of the Apianus projection

★ Philipp Apian (1531-1589)

★ Joost Jansz. Bilhamer (Netherlands, 1541-1590)

★ Willem Janszoon Blaeu (Netherlands, 1571 - 1638) - Father of Joan Blaeu

★ Giovanni Battista Boazio (? - ?) mapped Sir Francis Drake's voyage to the West Indies and America

★ Jacob Roelofs van Deventer, (Netherlands, c 1510/15 - 1575) cartographer

★ Fernão Vaz Dourado (India, c. 1520 - c. 1580) Portuguese cartographer of the school initiated by Lopo Homem

★ Gemma Frisius (or Reiner Gemma, 1508 - 1555)

★ Martin Heilwig (Germany, 1516 - 1574)

★ 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

★ Jodocus Hondius, (Flanders, England, Netherlands, 1563 - 1612)

★ Gerard de Jode (Flanders, 1509 - 1591)

★ Gerardus Mercator (Flanders, Netherlands, 1512 - 1594)

★ Sebastian Münster (Germany, 1488 – 1552)

★ Abraham Ortelius, (Flanders, 1527 - 1598)

★ Petrus Plancius, (Netherlands, 1552 - 1622)

★ Timothy Pont, (Scotland, 1565 - 1614)

★ 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

★ Diego Ribero (Portugal, ? - Sevilha, 1533) Portuguese cartographer, author of the first known planisphere with a graduated Equator (1527)

★ Christopher Saxton, (England, born c 1540)

★ John Speed, (England, 1542 - 1629)

★ Fernando Álvares 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

★ Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer (Netherlands, 1533/34 - 1605/06) driver, cartographer

17th century

★ 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

★ Johannes Blaeu (Netherlands, 1596 - 1673)

★ Vincenzo Coronelli (1650 – 1718)

★ Guillaume Delisle (1675 – 1726)

★ Isaak de Graaf (Netherlands, 1668 - 1743), cartographer for the VOC

★ Johann Homann (Germany, 1664 – 1724), geographer

★ Henricus Hondius (Netherlands, 1597 - 1651)

★ Jan Janssonius (Netherlands, 1588 - 1664)

★ Johannes van Keulen (Netherlands, 1654 - 1715)

★ Michael van Langren (Netherlands, 1600 - 1675)

★ Alain Manesson Mallet (France, 1630 – 1706)

★ Matthäus Merian Sr (Switzerland, 1593 - 1650) and Jr. ((Switzerland, 1621 - 1687)

★ Hermann Moll (Germany/England, 1654 – 1732)

★ Robert Morden (England, died 1703)

★ Dirk Rembrantsz van Nierop (Netherlands, 1610 - 1682), cartographer, mathematician and astronomist

★ John Ogilby (Scotland, 1600 - 1676)

★ Nicolas Sanson (France, 1600 – 1667)

★ Peter Schenk (1660 – 1718/1719)

★ Johannes Vingboons (Netherlands, 1616/1670) cartographer and aquarellist

★ Nicolaes Witsen (Netherlands, 1641 - 1717) diplomat, cartographer, writer and mayor of Amsterdam

18th century

★ Giambattista (Giovanni Battista) Albrizzi (Venice, 1698 – 1777), publisher of illustrated books and maps

★ Jean Baptiste d'Anville (France, 1697 - 1782)

★ Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772) Chief cartographer to the French navy

★ Rigobert Bonne (France, 1727-1795)- Royal Cartographer to France in the office of the Hydrographer at Depot de la Marine

★ James Cook (Captain RN) (1728 – 1779) navigator and naval chart maker

★ Simeon De Witt (1756 - 1834) Successor to Robert Erskine and Surveyor-General of the State of New York

★ Johann Friedrich Endersch (Germany, fl. 1755)

★ Colonel Robert Erskine (1735 - 1780) Geographer and Surveyor-General of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.

★ Joseph de Ferraris (1726 - 1814), Austrian cartographer of the Austrian Netherlands

★ Thomas Jefferys (c. 1710 - 1771) Geographer of King George III of the United Kingdom

★ Murdoch McKenzie (Scotland, died 1797)

★ John Mitchell (1711 - 1768) Colonial British American mapmaker.

★ Carlton Osgood US mapmaker

★ Thomas Richardson - Scottish

★ John Rocque (England, 1709 - 1762)

★ Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Schmettau (1743 - 1806)

★ Matthias Seutter (Germany, 1678 – 1757)

★ Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676 – 1747)

19th century

★ John James Abert (1788-1863)

★ Henry Peter Bosse (1844-1903)

★ George Bradshaw (1801 - 1853)

★ Agostino Codazzi (Italy, 1793-1858)

★ Carl Diercke (1842 - 1913)

★ Lucas, Fielding Jr. (c. 1781—1854) Lucas Brothers, Baltimore, USA

★ Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) - Circumnavigated, Tasmania and Australia

★ Matthew Fontaine Maury, (1806-1873) American, USN, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, educator.

★ Charles F. Hoffmann (1838 - 1913)

★ Felix Jones (England, 1813 - 1878)

★ Peter Kozler (Slovenia, 1824 - 1879), lawyer, geographer, politician, manufacturer.

★ Robert Moresby (England, ? - 1863)

★ Thomas Moule (England, 1784 - 1851)

★ John Tallis and Company (England, 1838 - 1851)

★ Yuly Shokalsky (Russia, 1856 - 1940)

★ Nicolas Auguste Tissot (France, 1824 - 1897)

★ Philippe Vandermaelen (Belgium, 1795 - 1869)

★ James Wilson (1763 – 1835) First globe maker in the US.

20th century

★ Erik Arnberger (1917 - 1987)

★ Jacques Bertin (1918- )

★ Roger Brunet (1931- )

★ Bernard J.S. Cahill (1867-1944) Inventor of octahedral "Butterfly Map" of the world.

★ John Paul Goode (1862-1932)

★ Max Eckert-Greifendorff (Germany, 1868 - 1938)

★ Hermann Haack (Germany, 1872 - 1966)

★ Günther Hake (1922 - 2000)

★ Richard Edes Harrison (1901-1994)

★ Eduard Imhof (1895 - 1986)

★ George F. Jenks (1916 - 1996)

★ Edgar Lehmann (1905 - 1990)

★ Rudi Ogrissek (1926 - 1999)

★ Arno Peters (1916-2002)

★ Erwin Raisz (1893 - 1968)

★ Arthur H. Robinson (1915 - 2004)

★ John C. Sherman (1916 - 1996)

★ Waldo R. Tobler (1930- )

★ Bradford Washburn (1910-2007)

★ Richard Saul Wurman (1936-)

21st century

★ Nikolas Schiller ^[1][2] (1980-)

★ Mike Reagan

★ Alexander Kent

★ Philip W. Arnold Sr. (1916-)

★ Elizabeth M. Brisson (1982-)

Cartography organizations

★ International Cartographic Association (ICA)

★ British Cartographic Society

★ NACIS North American Cartographic Information Society

★ Croatian Cartographic Society

★ Society of Cartographers Society of Cartographers

★ Swiss Society of Cartography

★ Washington Map Society

★ National Geographic Society

★ German Society of Cartography

★ Austrian Cartographic Commission of the Austrian Geographic Society

See also

★ History of cartography

★ List of geographers

★ Ancient world maps

References

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