List of cartographers

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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, Greece (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, Greece (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
  • Jacobus Angelus, Florence, translated Ptolemy into Latin c. 1406
  • Martin Behaim (Germany, 1436–1507)
  • Benedetto Bordone (Venetian Republic (1460–1551)
  • Sebastian Cabot (1476–1557), Venetian explorer
  • Erhard Etzlaub (1460–1532)
  • Leonardo da Vinci (Italy, 1452–1519)
  • Henricus Martellus Germanus (Germany, fl. 1480–1496)
  • Donnus Nicholas Germanus (Germany, fl. 1460–1475)
  • Fra Mauro (Venice, c. 1459)
  • Piri Reis (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 (Republic of Florence, 1454–1512)
  • Johannes Werner (Germany, 1466–1528), refined and promoted the Werner map projection
  • Martin Waldseemüller (Germany, c. 1470–c. 1521/1522)
  • Olaus Magnus (Olof Månsson) (Sweden, 1490 -1557) published Carta Marina in 1539
  • Gabriel de Valseca (15th century), Majorcan, author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean
  • Grazioso Benincasa[it] (15th century), from Ancona, author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean

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 1606–26 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[]

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
  • John James Abert (United States, 1788–1863), headed the Corps of Topographical Engineers for 32 years and organized the mapping of the American West
  • John Arrowsmith (England, 1790–1873), member of the Arrowsmith family of geographers
  • Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe (France, 1761–1824), also artist and longtime strategic advisor to Napoleon
  • John Senex (1690–1740), engraver, publisher, surveyor and geographer to Queen Anne[6]
  • John Lodge Cowley, cartographer, mathematician and geographer
  • Agostino Codazzi (Italy, 1793–1858)
  • Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres (1721–1824), created Atlantic Neptune
  • (Venice, 1698–1777), publisher of illustrated books and maps
  • map c1740[7]
  • John Gibson (cartographer), map c. 1758[8]
  • Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703–1772), chief cartographer to the French navy
  • William Bligh (England, 1754–57 December 1817), Ships Master during the infamous Bounty mutiny and noted free-hand cartographer
  • Rigobert Bonne (France, 1727–1795), Royal Cartographer to France in the office of the Hydrographer at Depot de la Marine
  • Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (France, 1697–1782)
  • (Spain, 1730–1802)[9]
  • , created Carta militar das principaes estradas de Portugal, 1808
  • Abel Buell (1742–1822), published the first map of the new United States created by an American
  • Dimitrie Cantemir (Moldavia and Russia, 1673–1723)
  • César-François Cassini de Thury (a.k.a. Cassini III, France, 1714–1784)
  • Jean-Dominique Cassini (a.k.a. Cassini IV, France, 1748–1845)
  • Edme Mentelle (France, 1730–1816)
  • (France, 1758–1817)[10]
  • 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
  • Louis Isidore Duperrey (French, 1786–1865)
  • 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
  • Matthew Flinders (British, 1774–1814), Royal Navy officer; circumnavigated Australia and made exploration of the Australian coastline
  • (Austria, 1765–1828)
  • Louis Feuillée (France, 1660–1732)
  • Björn Gunnlaugsson (Iceland, 1788–1876)
  • Fielding Lucas, Jr. (c. 1781–1854), of the Lucas Brothers, Baltimore, USA
  • "New and Correct Plan of London", 1770
  • Samuel Gustaf Hermelin (Sweden, 1744–1820)[11]
  • Thomas Jefferys (England, c. 1710–1771), geographer of King George III of the United Kingdom
  • William Faden (England, 1749–1836), successor to Thomas Jefferys
  • Pierre Jacotin (France, 1765–1829)
  • Murdoch McKenzie (Scotland, died 1797)
  • John Mitchell (1711–1768), colonial British American mapmaker
  • Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (England, 1792–1855)
  • Robert Moresby (England, 1794–1863)
  • Thomas Moule (England, 1784–1851)
  • Carlton Osgood (United States, †1816)
  • Adriaan Reland (Netherlands, 1676–1718), linguist and cartographer
  • Thomas Richardson (Scotland)
  • Dider Robert de Vaugondy (France, 1688–1766)
  • John Rocque (England, 1709–1762)
  • David Watson, surveyed Scotland post 1747 to produce The Duke of Cumberland's Map
  • William Roy (England, 1726–1790)
  • William Mudge (England, 1762–1820)
  • Thomas Frederick Colby (England, 1784–1852)
  • Matthäus Seutter (Germany, 1678–1757)
  • (1743–1806)
  • Matthias Seutter (Germany, 1678–1757)
  • (Netherlands, 1796–1866)
  • Inō Tadataka (Japan, 1745–1818) Surveyor and cartographer who completed the first surveyed map of Japan
  • David Thompson (British–Canadian, 1770–1857)
  • Daniel-Charles Trudaine (France, 1703–1769)
  • Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676–1747)
  • Thomas Kitchin (1718–1784), London-based cartographer and engraver of maps of England, greater Europe, and parts of the British Empire.; at one time held the titles "Senior Hydrographer to His Majesty" and "Senior Engraver to His Royal Highness the Duke of York"[12]
  • Friedrich Christoph Müller (Germany, 1751–1808)
  • Philippe Vandermaelen (Belgium, 1795–1869)
  • (Russia, 1757–1823), geographer of the Geographic Department of the Cabinet of Her Imperial Majesty
  • Emma Willard (United States, 1787–1870), women's rights activist and education reformer
  • James Wilson (United States, 1763–1835), first maker of globes in the United States
  • George Washington (United States of America, 1732–1799), first president of the United States; cartographer
  • Henri Michelot (France, born c. 1664), Marseilles, France, hydrographer and pilot of the Royal Galley

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
  • (Brazil, 1949– ), professor of geography at the University of Sao Paulo, [14]
  • Jacques Bertin (France, 1918–2010)
  • Josef Breu (Austria, 1914–1998)
  • Cynthia Brewer (United States, 1957– ), developed ColorBrewer, professor at Penn State University
  • Roger Brunet (1931– )
  • Emanuela Casti (1950– ), formalized a semiotic theory of geographic maps
  • Danny Dorling (1968– ), developed circular cartograms
  • (United States, 1922–2021), first female intelligence cartographer in the Central Intelligence Agency
  • , (1987– ), cartographic artist
  • (1922–2000)
  • Richard Edes Harrison (1901–1994)
  • Tom Harrisson (1911–1976)
  • (1916–1996)
  • Elrey Borge Jeppesen (1907–1996)
  • (1939–2011)
  • (United States, 1919–2011), creator and editor of Flashmaps guidebooks
  • (1905–1990)
  • Kate McLean(United Kingdom) Best known for creating olfactory maps of cities
  • Jess Miller (United States, 1988– ), artist, photographer, and cartographer of rural Arkansas
  • Mark Monmonier (United States, 1943– ), wrote How to Lie with Maps and created the Monmonier Algorithm. Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Syracuse University
  • Mark Newman (1968– ), developed area contiguous cartograms using a diffusion-based method
  • (United States, 1905–2011), cartographer of the Maine coast
  • (1926–1999)
  • Rafael Palacios (1905–1993), prolific map-drawer for major US publishers
  • Phyllis Pearsall (England, 1906–1996), creator of the Geographers' A–Z Street Atlas
  • (1939–1992), first woman to serve as Vice President of the International Cartographic Association
  • Arthur H. Robinson (1915–2004), wrote the influential textbook Elements of Cartography and developed the Robinson projection
  • Abbas Sahab (1921–2000), Iranian cartographer, produced the first atlas of the Persian Gulf
  • Paula Scher (United States, 1948– ), graphic designer, painter
  • (United States 1954– ), professor of geography at the University of Vermont
  • Nikolas Schiller (1980– ), Arabesque maps composed of kaleidoscopic aerial photographs
  • (1916–1996)
  • Jessamine Shumate (1902–1990)
  • (Russia, 1938–2013), first person to successfully map the dark side of the moon
  • John P. Snyder (1926–1997), developed the space oblique mercator projection
  • Dr. E. Lee Spence (1947– ), pioneer underwater archaeologist, decorative, historical maps showing shipwreck locations
  • Marie Tharp (1920–2006), oceanographic cartographer
  • Norman J. W. Thrower (1919–2002) professor at UCLA and author who was known for work in geography, surveying practices, and history
  • Waldo R. Tobler (1930–2018), developed the first law of geography
  • (United States, 1939– ), professor emerita of geography at California State University, Long Beach
  • (Deutschland, 1854–1919), cartographer of German colonies
  • Bradford Washburn (1910–2007)
  • Denis Wood (United States, 1945– ), artist, author, and former professor of design at North Carolina State University
  • David Woodward (1942–2004)

See also[]

References[]

  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. ^ "La Jamaique". Archived from the original on 1 October 2009.
  8. ^ Gibson, John. "A Correct Map of the Island of Jamaica". Archived from the original on 6 October 2011.
  9. ^ "López de Vargas Machuca, Tomás, 1731-1802". VIAF.org.
  10. ^ "Pierre-Gilles Chanlaire (1758–1817)". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  11. ^ "Map of Sweden". World Digital Library. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
  12. ^ Kitchen Map 1755
  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.
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