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The memorial to J G Bartholomew in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh. John George Bartholomew FRSE FRGS (22 March 1860 – 14 April 1920) was a British cartographer and geographer.As a holder of a royal warrant, he used the title "Cartographer to the King"; for this reason he was sometimes known by the epithet "the Prince of Cartography".
English: Waldseemüller map from 1507 is the first map to include the name "America" and the first to depict the Americas as separate from Asia. There is only one surviving copy of the map, which was purchased by the Library of Congress in 2001 for $10 million.
Matsuura TakeshirÅ (Japan, 1818–1888), explorer, cartographer, writer, painter, priest, and antiquarian. Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler (1842–1922), American producer of pictorial maps [13] Charles F. Hoffmann (Germany/United States, 1838–1913) James Gardner; Charles E. Goad (1848 – 1910), English Canadian cartographer and pioneer of ...
Homann acquired renown as a leading German cartographer, and in 1715 was appointed Imperial Geographer by Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. Giving such privileges to individuals was an added right that the Holy Roman Emperor enjoyed. In the same year he was also named a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin.
Martin Waldseemüller (c. 1470 – 16 March 1520) was a German cartographer and humanist scholar. Sometimes known by the Hellenized form of his name, Hylacomylus, his work was influential among contemporary cartographers.
Herman Moll (mid-17th century – 22 September 1732) was a British cartographer, engraver, and publisher. A portrait of Herman Moll by William Stukeley (1723) Origin and early life
Carsten Niebuhr, or Karsten Niebuhr (17 March 1733 Lüdingworth – 26 April 1815 Meldorf, Dithmarschen), was a German mathematician, cartographer, and explorer in the service of Denmark-Norway. He is renowned for his participation in the Danish Arabia expedition (1761-1767).
Sebastian Münster (20 January 1488 – 26 May 1552) [1] was a German cartographer and cosmographer. He also was a Christian Hebraist scholar who taught as a professor at the University of Basel. His well-known work, the highly accurate world map, Cosmographia, sold well and went through 24 editions. Its influence was widely spread by a ...