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List of cartographers

List of cartographers is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand List of cartographers rather than just read about it. In short: Cartography is the study of map making and, cartographers are map makers. Before 1400 Anaximander, Greek Anatolia (610 BC–546 BC), first to attempt making a map of the known world Dicaearchus, Magna Graecia (c. 350 BC–285 BC), philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author Angelino Dulcert (14th century), author of the earliest known Mallorcan portolan charts of the Mediterranean Ende, Spain (c. 1000 A…

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Reference excerpt

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

Before 1400

Anaximander, Greek Anatolia (610 BC–546 BC), first to attempt making a map of the known world Dicaearchus, Magna Graecia (c. 350 BC–285 BC), philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author Angelino Dulcert (14th century), author of the earliest known Mallorcan portolan charts of the Mediterranean 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, Hecataeus of Miletus, Greek Anatolia (550 BC–476 BC), geographer, cartographer, and early ethnographer Hipparchus, Greek Anatolia (190 BC–120 BC), astronomer, cartographer, geographer al-Idrisi, Sicily (1100–1166), Arab cartographer, geographer and traveller Isidore of Seville, Hispania (560–636) al-Khwārazmī, Caliphate (9th century), Persian cartographer, geographer, and polymath Liu An, China (179 BC–122 BC), geographer, cartographer, author of the Huainanzi Marinus of Tyre, Roman Syria (c. AD 70–130), Greek geographer, cartographer and mathematician, who founded mathematical geography Pei Xiu (224–271), Chinese geographer and cartographer Maximus Planudes, Byzantine Empire (13th century), monk credited with restoring the texts and maps of Ptolemy Ptolemy, Ptolemaic Egypt (c. 85–165), Greek astronomer, cartographer, and geographer 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 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 Pietro Vesconte, Genoese cartographer, author of the oldest signed Portolan chart (1311)

15th century

Jacobus Angelus, Florence, translated Ptolemy into Latin c. 1406 Martin Behaim (Germany, 1436–1507) Grazioso Benincasa (15th century), from Ancona, author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean Benedetto Bordone (Venetian Republic 1460–1551) Sebastian Cabot (1476–1557), Venetian explorer Leonardo da Vinci (Italy, 1452–1519) Gabriel de Valseca (15th century), Mallorcan, author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean Erhard Etzlaub (1460–1532) Donnus Nicholas Germanus (Germany, fl. 1460–1475) Henricus Martellus Germanus (Germany, fl. 1480–1496) Olaus Magnus (Olof Månsson) (Sweden, 1490–1557), published Carta Marina in 1539 Fra Mauro (Venice, c. 1459) Piri Reis (Dardanelles, Ottoman Empire, 1465–1554/1555), author of the Kitab-ı Bahriye Johannes Ruysch (Netherlands, c. 1466–1530), explorer, cartographer, astronomer, manuscript illustrator and painter Hartmann Schedel (Germany, 1440–1514) Amerigo Vespucci (Republic of Florence, 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), Genoese, cartographer, author of numerous nautical atlases Hacı Ahmet, Ottoman Tunisian cartographer, translated 16th-c. map into Turkish for the Ottoman Empire Peter Apian (1495–1552), also known as Peter Bienewitz, German geographer and astronomer, author of the Apianus projection Philipp Apian (1531–1589) Joost Janszoon 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 Georg Braun (Germany, 1541–1622), cartographer Anders Bure (Sweden, 1571–1646), founder of Swedish cartography Hernando de los Ríos Coronel (1559–1621?), cosmographer and cartographer, mapped Taiwan (Isla Hermosa), Luzon and part of the Chinese coast Jacob Roelofs van Deventer (Netherlands, c. 1510/15–1575) Fernão Vaz Dourado (India, c. 1520–c. 1580), Portuguese cartographer of the school initiated by Lopo Homem Oronce Finé (France, 1494–1555) Gemma Frisius (or Reiner Gemma) (Netherlands, 1508–1555) Diego Gutiérrez (Spain, ?), published a map entitled Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio with printer Hieronymus Cock; first map with toponym "California" and first appearance of a word for "Appalachia," as the term "Apalchen" Jan Van Hanswijk (Netherlands, fl. 1594) Martin Helwig (Germany, 1516–1574) Augustin Hirschvogel (Germany, 1503–1553) Diogo Homem (Portugal 1521–1576), cartographer, son of Lopo Homem Lopo Homem (Portugal?–1565), co-author, with the Reinel family, of the well-known Miller Atlas Jodocus Hondius (Netherlands, 1563–1612) Johannes Honterus (Transylvania, 1498–1549) Gerard de Jode (Netherlands, 1509–1591) Joan Martines (Messina, Sicily, died 1591) Urbano Monti (Italy, 1544–1613) Jacques le Moyne (France, c. 1533–1588) Guillaume Le Testu (France, c. 1509–1573) Gerardus Mercator (Netherlands, 1512–1594) Sebastian Münster (Germany, 1488–1552) Abraham Ortelius (France, 1527–1598), generally recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas Petrus Plancius (Netherlands, 1552–1622) Timothy Pont (Scotland, 1565–1614) Jorge Reinel (Portugal c. 1502–c. 1572), Portuguese cartographer, son of Pedro Reinel Pedro Reinel (Portugal ?–c. 1542), author of the oldest signed Portuguese nautical chart Diogo Ribeiro (Portugal, ?–Sevilha, 1533), author of the first known planisphere with a graduated Equator (1527) Christopher Saxton (England, born c. 1540) John Speed (England, 1542–1629) Luís Teixeira (Portugal, ?–?), author of an important atlas of Brazil Bartolomeu Velho (Portugal, ?–1568), cosmographer and cartographer Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer (Netherlands, 1533/34–1605/06), driver, cartographer Edward Wright (England, 1561–1615), mathematician and cartographer

17th century

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with List of cartographers

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what List of cartographers claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to List of cartographers before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about List of cartographers ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of List of cartographers

In research: List of cartographers appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses List of cartographers in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: List of cartographers is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Cartographers, Lists of people by occupation, Map companies, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for List of cartographers outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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What is List of cartographers in simple terms?

Cartography is the study of map making and, cartographers are map makers. Before 1400 Anaximander, Greek Anatolia (610 BC–546 BC), first to attempt making a map of the known world Dicaearchus, Magna Graecia (c. 350 BC–285 BC), philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author Angelino Du…

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Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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