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Cornelis de Jode (1568 – 17 October 1600) was a cartographer, engraver and publisher from Antwerp.He was the son of Gerard de Jode, also a cartographer.Cornelis studied science at Academy of Douai [1]
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; Judith Tyner (United States, born 1939), professor emerita of geography at California State University, Long Beach
A medieval depiction of the Ecumene (1482, Johannes Schnitzer, engraver), constructed after the coordinates in Ptolemy's Geography and using his second map projection. The translation into Latin and dissemination of Geography in Europe, in the beginning of the 15th century, marked the rebirth of scientific cartography, after more than a millennium of stagnation.
Richard Edes Harrison's father was the biologist Ross Granville Harrison.He was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1901. [3] He spent his youth in New Haven and went to Yale College where he graduated with a major in zoology and a minor in chemistry. [3]
Pei is best known for his work in cartography. Although map making and use of the grid existed in China before him, [43]: 106–107 he was the first to mention a plotted geometrical grid and graduated scale displayed on the surface of maps to gain greater accuracy in the estimated distance between different locations.
In 1931 he joined the Institute of Geographical Exploration at Harvard University, where he taught cartography and was curator of the map collection for 20 years. He created a significant body of work using hand-drawn pen-and-ink techniques, which during that period were largely being replaced by photo-mechanical processes and scribing.
Volume 2, Book 3 of The History of Cartography. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998. ISBN 0-226-90728-7. Woodward, David, ed. Cartography in the European Renaissance. Volume 3 of The History of Cartography. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. ISBN 0-226-90732-5 (Set), 0-226-90733-3 (Part 1), 0-226-90734-1 ...