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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
Ptolemy's 150 CE world map (as redrawn in the 15th century)

15th century

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

16th century

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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

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Willem Blaeu and Johannes Blaeu's 1606–26 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

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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

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Moule's map of the hundreds of Monmouthshire, c. 1831
A 1912 map of the Russian Empire by Yuly Shokalsky

20th century

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

Assistant Professor of Geography, Directorate of Collegiate Education, Government of Kerala, India is a notable Online Geographer and a Web Cartographer and well known for his contribution. Since 2011 and still flourishing.

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References

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  1. Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider (ed.): "Marinus", Brill's New Pauly, Brill, 2010: M. of Tyre (Μαρῖνος; Marînos), Greek geographer, 2nd century AD
  2. "General Depiction of the Empty Plains (in Common Parlance, the Ukraine) Together with its Neighboring Provinces". World Digital Library. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
  3. Borschak, Elie. "Beauplan, Guillaume Le Vasseur de". Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
  4. Emanuel Bowen
  5. "Venezuela with the Southern Part of New Andalusia". World Digital Library. 1612–1699. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
  6. John Senex
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 October 2009. Retrieved 26 September 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 October 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. "27152759".
  10. "Pierre-Gilles Chanlaire (1758-1817)". Archived from the original on 18 February 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  11. "Map of Sweden". World Digital Library. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
  12. "Kitchen Map 1755". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  13. "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1902". World Digital Library. 1902. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
  14. "The Women Who Shaped the World". Future Maps. Retrieved 3 July 2019.