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Encyclopedia > List of cartographers

Cartography is the study of map making and cartographers are map makers. Cartography or mapmaking (in Greek chartis = map and graphein = write) is the study and practice of making maps or globes. ...

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Before 1400

Dicaearchus (also correct in English Dicearchos, Dicearchus or Dikæarchus) (Greek Dixaiarxos) (circa 350 BC - circa 285 BC) was a Greek philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician and author. ... Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 400s BC 390s BC 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC - 350s BC - 340s BC 330s BC 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 355 BC 354 BC 353 BC 352 BC 351 BC - 350 BC - 349 BC 348 BC 347... Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC Decades: 330s BC 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC - 280s BC - 270s BC 260s BC 250s BC 240s BC 230s BC 290 BC 289 BC 288 BC 287 BC 286 BC 285 BC 284 BC 283 BC 282... Hipparchus. ... Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 240s BC 230s BC 220s BC 210s BC 200s BC - 190s BC - 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC Years: 195 BC 194 BC 193 BC 192 BC 191 BC - 190 BC - 189 BC 188 BC... Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC - 120s BC - 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC Years: 125 BC 124 BC 123 BC 122 BC 121 BC - 120 BC - 119 BC 118 BC... Saint Isidore of Seville (in Spanish San Isidro or San Isidoro de Sevilla) (Cartagena, Spain, about 560 - April 4, 636) was Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and has the reputation of being one of the great scholars of the early middle ages. ... Events Ceawlin of Wessex becomes King of Wessex (traditional date). ... Events April 20 - Battle of Yarmuk - Byzantine Empire loses Syria to the Arabs The Arabs invade Persia Rothari marries queen Gundeparga, becomes king of the Lombards city of Basra Iraq founded by caliph Omar on a canal. ... Claudius Ptolemaeus (Greek: ; c. ... Events Roman Empire Dacians under Decebalus engaged in two wars against the Romans from this year to AD 88 or 89. ... Events Roman operations under Avidius Cassius was successful against Parthia, capturing Artaxata, Seleucia, and Ctesiphon. ... Al_Idrisis world map from 1154. ... Sicilian redirects here. ... Events William II of England dies in a hunting accident - Henry I becomes King of England King Henry I proclaims the Charter of Liberties, one of the first examples of a constitution. ... // Events Marko III succeeds Yoannis V as patriarch of Alexandria. ... The Arabs (Arabic: عرب ) are a large and heterogeneous ethnic group found throughout the Middle East and North Africa. ...

15th century

Martin Behaim (October 6, 1459 – July 29, 1507), or Behem, was a navigator and geographer of great pretensions. ... Events April - Paris is recaptured by the French End of the Hussite Wars in Bohemia. ... 1507 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Events The first Portuguese navigators reach the coast of modern Sierra Leone. ... Events May 16 - Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England. ... The 1459 Fra Mauro map (south is at the top). ... Events September 23 - Battle of Blore Heath. ... Portrait of Sebastian Münster by Christoph Amberger, c. ... // Events February 3 - Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, at the tip of Africa becoming the first known European to travel this far south. ... Events April - War between Henry II of France and Emperor Charles V. Henry invades Lorraine and captures Toul, Metz, and Verdun. ... Piri Reis (originally Hadji Muhammad) was an Ottoman admiral born around 1465, in Gallipoli on the Dardanelles. ... Events July 13 - Battle of Montlhéry Troops of King Louis XI of France fight inconclusively against an army of the great nobles organized as the League of the Public Weal. ... Events January 5 - Great fire in Eindhoven, Netherlands. ... Events Russia breaks 60 year old truce with Sweden by attacking Finland February 2 - Diet of Augsburg begins February 4 - John Rogers becomes first Protestant martyr in England February 9 - Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake May 23 - Paul IV becomes Pope. ... Hartmann Schedel, a german humanist and historian (* February 13, 1440 in Nuremberg, † November 28, 1514 in Nuremberg), was one of the first cartographers to make use of the printing press. ... For alternative meanings, see number 1440. ... 1514 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Italian ship named after Vespucci, see Amerigo Vespucci (ship). ... Events February 4 - In the Thirteen Years War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederacy sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master. ... 1512 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Martin Waldseemüller (ca. ... Events May 15 - Charles VIII of Sweden who had served three terms as King of Sweden dies. ... Events January 3 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem. ... Events January 9 - Adrian Dedens becomes Pope Adrian VI. February 26 - Execution by hanging of Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan under orders of conquistador Hernán Cortés. ... Johannes Werner (1466 – 1528), a parish priest in Nuremberg, refined and promoted the Werner map projection, a cordiform (heart-shape) projection map that had been developed by Johannes Stabius (Stab) of Vienna around 1500. ... Events Chimú Empire conquered by troops of the Inca End of term for Regent of Sweden Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna. ... Events June 19 - Battle of Landriano - A French army in Italy under Marshal St. ... The Mercator projection shows courses of constant bearing as straight lines. ...

16th century

Willem Jansz Blaeu Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571 – 1638), also rendered Willem Jansz Blaeu, was a Dutch cartographer and atlas maker, born in Alkmaar. ... Events January 11 - Austrian nobility is granted Freedom of religion. ... Events March 29 - Swedish colonists establish first settlement in Delaware, called New Sweden. ... Events February 5 - 26 catholics crucified in Nagasaki, Japan. ... Events January 22 - Impostor Mary Carleton is hanged in Newgate prison in England for multiple thefts and returning from penal transportation March 18 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Quakers. ... Gemma Frisius, seventeenth-century woodcut by E. de Boulonois For the crater, see Gemma Frisius (crater) Gemma Frisius (or Reiner Gemma, December 9, 1508 - May 25, 1555) was a mathematician, cartographer and instrument maker. ... 1508 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Events Russia breaks 60 year old truce with Sweden by attacking Finland February 2 - Diet of Augsburg begins February 4 - John Rogers becomes first Protestant martyr in England February 9 - Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake May 23 - Paul IV becomes Pope. ... Martin Heilwig (1516 - 1574) was a Silesian (Schlesien) cartographer. ... // Events March - With the death of Ferdinand II of Aragon, his grandson Charles of Ghent becomes King of Spain as Carlos I. July - Selim I of the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Mameluks and invades Syria. ... Events April 14 - Battle of Mookerheyde. ... Jodocus Hondius on an engraving of the year 1619 Jodocus Hondius (1563-1611), sometimes called Jodocus Hondius the Elder to distinguish him from his son) was a Flemish artist, engraver, and cartographer. ... Events February 1 - Sarsa Dengel succeeds his father Menas as Emperor of Ethiopia February 18 - The Duke of Guise is assassinated while besieging Orléans March - Peace of Amboise. ... Events January 20 - Mathias becomes Holy Roman Emperor. ... Events 17 January - A court case in Guildford recorded evidence that a certain plot of land was used for playing “kreckett” (i. ... // Events January 1 - Charles II crowned King of Scotland in Scone. ... Jan Janssonius (1588 – 1664) (Jan Jansson) was a Dutch cartographer who lived and worked in Amsterdam in the 17th century. ... 1588 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. ... Events March 12 - New Jersey becomes a colony of England. ... Gerard de Jode (1509 - 1591) was a cartographer, engraver and publisher who lived and worked in Antwerp during the 16th century. ... 1509 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Events June - Capture of Zutphen by the Dutch under Maurice of Nassau. ... Gerardus Mercator (March 5, 1512 – December 2, 1594) was a Flemish cartographer of German descent, his parents being from Gangelt in the Duchy of Jülich. ... 1512 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Events February 27 - Henry IV is crowned King of France at Rheims. ... Events May 18 - Playwright Thomas Kyds accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe. ... // Events June 23 - Claimant King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland arrives in Scotland, the only of the three Kingdoms that has accepted him as ruler. ... Pedro Nunes (latin, Petrus Nonius), (1502, Alcácer do Sal – August 11, 1578, Coimbra) was a Portuguese mathematician, maybe born from a New Christian (of Jewish origin) family. ... 1502 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Events January 31 - Battle of Gemblours - Spanish forces under Don John of Austria and Alexander Farnese defeat the Dutch. ... Abraham Ortelius. ... Events January 5 - Felix Manz, co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, was drowned in the Limmat River in Zürich by the Zürich Reformed state church. ... Events January 7 - Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia following the death of his brother-in-law, Tsar Feodor I. April 13 - Edict of Nantes - Henry IV of France grants French Huguenots equal rights with Catholics. ... Petrus Plancius (1552–1622) was a Dutch astronomer, cartographer and clergyman. ... Events April - War between Henry II of France and Emperor Charles V. Henry invades Lorraine and captures Toul, Metz, and Verdun. ... Events January 1 - In the Gregorian calendar, January 1 is declared as the first day of the year, instead of March 25. ... John Speed (1542-1629) was a historian, now best remembered as the cartographer whose maps of English counties are often found framed in homes throughout the UK. He was born at Farndon in Cheshire, and went into his fathers tailoring business where he worked until he was about 50... Events War resumes between Francis I of France and Emperor Charles V. This time Henry VIII of England is allied to the Emperor, while James V of Scotland and Sultan Suleiman I are allied to the French. ... Events March 4 - Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter. ... Christopher Saxton was born in Yorkshire around 1540. ...

17th century

Events January 4 - Palace of Whitehall in London is destroyed by fire. ... 1777 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Marco Vincenzo Coronelli (August 16, 1650 - December 9, 1718) was an Italian cartographer and encyclopedist known in particular for his globes. ... // Events June 23 - Claimant King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland arrives in Scotland, the only of the three Kingdoms that has accepted him as ruler. ... // Events The Funj warrior aristocracy deposes the reigning mek and places one of their own ranks on the throne of Sennar. ... Guillaume Delisle (February 28, 1675 - January 25, 1726) was a French cartographer, born in Paris, France (he also died there). ... Events January 5 - The Battle of Turckeim June 18 - Battle of Fehrbellin August 10 - King Charles II of England places the foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London - construction begins November 11 - Guru Gobind Singh becomes the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs. ... Events George Friderich Handel becomes a British subject. ... Johann Baptist Homann (1664 - 1724) of Nuremberg, Germany was a geographer and cartographer, who was instrumental in making maps of the Americas to show to Europeans, and in turn bringing Europeans to see America. ... Events March 12 - New Jersey becomes a colony of England. ... Events January 14 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne February 20 - The premiere of Giulio Cesare, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, takes place in London June 23 - Treaty of Constantinople signed. ... Johannes van Keulen (1654-1715) was a 17th century Dutch cartographer. ... Matthäus Merian Matthäus Merian der Ältere (the Elder, or Sr. ... Events February 9 - Gregory XV is elected pope. ... Events March 19 - The men under explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle murder him while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River. ... A 1650 map of Sansons showing North America (with California depicted as an island) Nicolas Sanson (1600-1667) was a French cartographer, wrongly termed by some the creator of French geography. ... 1597 1598 1599 - 1600 - 1601 1602 1603 |- | align=center colspan=2 | Decades: 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s |- | align=center | Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |} // Events January January 1 - Scotland adopts January 1st as being New Years Day February February 17 - Giordano Bruno burned at the... // Events January 20 - Poland cedes Kyiv, Smolensk, and eastern Ukraine to Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo that put a final end to the Deluge, and Poland lost its status as a Central European power. ... Events February 2 - Earthquake in Aquila, Italy February 4 - In Japan, the 47 samurai commit seppuku (ritual suicide) February 14 - Earthquake in Norcia, Italy April 21 - Company of Quenching of Fire (ie. ... Events Expulsion of the Carib indigenous people from Martinique by French occupying forces. ... // Events The Funj warrior aristocracy deposes the reigning mek and places one of their own ranks on the throne of Sennar. ... // Events January 23 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire April 25 - Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe June 10 - Battle of Glen Shiel Prussia conducts Europes first systematic census Miners in Falun, Sweden find an apparently petrified body of Fet-Mats Israelsson in an unused... // Events February 14 - Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister February 21 - - The premiere in London of George Frideric Handels oratorio, Samson. ... Events August 10 - Treaty of Nijmegen ends the Dutch War. ... 1757 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Alain Manesson Mallet (1630 – 1706) was a French cartographer and engineer. ... Events February 22 - Native American Quadequine introduces Popcorn to English colonists. ... Events March 27 - Concluding that Emperor Iyasus I of Ethiopia had abdicated by retiring to a monastery, a council of high officials appoint Tekle Haymanot I Emperor of Ethiopia May 23 - Battle of Ramillies September 7 - The Battle of Turin in the War of Spanish Succession - forces of Austria and...

18th century

// Events April 10 - The worlds first copyright legislation became effective, Britains Statute of Anne Ongoing events Great Northern War (1700-1721) War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713) Births January 3 - Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (d. ... 1771 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... George III (George William Frederick) (4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until 1 January 1801, and thereafter King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death. ... Johann Friedrich Endersch was a Polish mapmaker and mathematician from Elbląg, Royal Prussia who in 1755 completed a map of Warmia titled: Tabula Geographica Episcopatu Warmiensis In Prussia Exhibiens, which detailed all the surrounding towns. ... 1755 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Colonel Robert Erskine (1735-1780) was the Geographer and Surveyor-General of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. ... Events April 16 - The London premiere of Alcina by George Frideric Handel, his first the first Italian opera for the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden. ... 1780 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... A geographer is a crazy psycho whose area of study is geocrap, the pseudoscientific study of Earths physical environment and human habitat and the study of boring students to death. ... Illustration depicting uniforms and weapons used during the 1779 to 1783 period of the American Revolution by showing four soldiers standing in an informal group General George Washington, was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army on June 15, 1775. ... The American Revolution was an upheaval that ended British control of middle North America, resulting ultimately in the formation of the United States of America. ... John Rocque (originally Jean, b. ... // Events January 12 - Two-month freezing period begins in France - The coast of the Atlantic and Seine River freeze, crops fail and at least 24. ... 1762 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Simeon De Witt (1756-1834) was the Geographer and Surveyor-General of the Continental Army during the American Revolution and Surveyor General of the State of New York for the fifty years from 1884 until his death, a time of rapid expansion into the Indian lands of the central and... 1756 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1834 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq. ... City plan of Baltimore by Lucas, Fielding Jr. ... 1781 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1854 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the city in the US state of Maryland. ... Thomas Richardson was a Scottish cartographer in the 18th Century. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. ... The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services being the oldest of its three branches. ... Events Astronomical aberration discovered by the astronomer James Bradley Swedish academy of sciences founded at Uppsala The founding of the University of Havana (Universidad de la Habana), Cubas most well-established university. ... 1779 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... James Wilson (March 15, 1763-1835) was the first maker of globes in the USA. Born in Londonderry, New Hampshire, Wilson farmed with his father and trained as a blacksmith, though had little other formal education. ... 1763 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... | Come and take it, slogan of the Texas Revolution 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

19th century

George Bradshaw (July 29, 1801 - August, 1853) was an English cartographer, printer and publisher and the originator of the railway timetable. ... A native of Germany, trained as an engineer. ... Eduard Imhof Signature Eduard Imhof (1895-1986) was a professor of cartography at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, from 1925 - 1965. ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Peter Kozler (February 16, 1824 - April 16, 1879) was a Slovene lawyer, geographer, cartographer, politician and manufacturer, born in Koče, south of Kočevje, Austria-Hungary (now Slovenia). ... 1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Thomas Moule (1784 - January 1851) was an English antiquarian, writer on heraldry, and map-maker. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Nicolas Auguste Tissot was a 19th century French cartographer, who in 1859 and 1881 published an analysis of the distortion that occurs on map projections. ... Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (born Paris 1703, died Versailles 21 March 1772). ...

20th century

  • Erik Arnberger (1917 - 1987)
  • Jacques Bertin (1918- )
  • Roger Brunet (1931- )
  • Günther Hake (1922 - 2000)
  • George F. Jenks (1916 - 1996)
  • Edgar Lehmann (1905 - 1990)
  • Rudi Ogrissek (1926 - 1999)
  • Erwin Raisz (1893 - 1968)
  • Arthur H. Robinson (1915 - 2004)
  • John C. Sherman (1916 - 1996)
  • Waldo R. Tobler (1930- )

Arthur H. Robinson ( January 5, 1915 – October 19, 2004) was an American geographer and cartographer. ... Waldo Tobler received his degrees in Geography from the University of Washington in Seattle, spent several years at the University of Michigan and is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of California in Santa Barbara. ...

21st century

Mike Reagan graduated from the University of Arkansas with an MFA in painting. ...

Cartography organizations

  • British Cartographic Society
  • Society of Cartographers
  • NACIS North American Cartographic Information Society
  • Swiss Society of Cartography
  • Ordnance Survey (United Kingdom)

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