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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]
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.
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 ...
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Ronald Vere Tooley (29 September 1898 – 12 October 1986) was an English map dealer, an authority on early maps and cartographers, a noted compiler of catalogues on maps, cartography and antiquarian books, author of Maps and Map-makers, and founder of the Map Collectors' Circle which published a series of monographs on historical cartography in the period 1963–1975.
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 ...
The Map Communication Model is a theory in cartography that characterizes mapping as a process of transmitting geographic information via the map from the cartographer to the end-user. [1] It was perhaps the first paradigm to gain widespread acceptance in cartography in the international cartographic community and between academic and ...