Gemma Frisius (or Reiner Gemma) (Netherlands, 1508–1555).1580), Portuguese cartographer of the school initiated by Lopo Homem Jacob Roelofs van Deventer (Netherlands, c 1510/15–1575).Giovanni Battista Boazio, mapped Sir Francis Drake's voyage to the West Indies and America.Willem Janszoon Blaeu (Netherlands, 1571–1638), father of Joan Blaeu.Joost Janszoon Bilhamer (Netherlands, 1541–1590).Peter Apian (1495–1552), also known as Peter Bienewitz, German geographer and astronomer, author of the Apianus projection.Hacı Ahmet, Tunisian cartographer, translated 16th c.1500–1564), Genoese, cartographer, author of numerous nautical atlases World map from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius Grazioso Benincasa (15th century), from Ancona, author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean.Gabriel de Valseca (15th century), Majorcan, author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean.Olaus Magnus (Olof Månsson) (Sweden, 1490 -1557) published Carta Marina in 1539.Johannes Werner (Germany, 1466–1528), refined and promoted the Werner map projection.Amerigo Vespucci ( Republic of Florence, 1454–1512).Johannes Ruysch (Netherlands, c 1466–1530), explorer, cartographer, astronomer, manuscript illustrator and painter.Donnus Nicholas Germanus (Germany, fl.Henricus Martellus Germanus (Germany, fl.Sebastian Cabot (1476–1557), Venetian explorer.Benedetto Bordone (Venetian Republic (1460–1551).Jacobus Angelus, Florence, translated Ptolemy into Latin c.Angelino Dulcert (14th century), author of the earliest known Majorcan portolan charts of the Mediterranean.

Petrus Vesconte, Genoese cartographer, author of the oldest signed Portolan chart (1311).

Maximus Planudes, Byzantine Empire (13th century), a monk credited with restoring the texts and maps of Ptolemy.

al-Idrisi, Sicily (1100–1166), Arab cartographer, geographer and traveller.

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.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.al-Khwārazmī, Caliphate (9th century), Persian cartographer, geographer, and polymath.Pei Xiu (224–271), Chinese geographer and cartographer.85–165), Greek astronomer, cartographer, and geographer AD 70–130), Greek geographer, cartographer and mathematician, who founded mathematical geography Liu An, China (179 BC–122 BC), geographer, cartographer, author of the Huainanzi.Hipparchus, Greece (190 BC–120 BC), astronomer, cartographer, geographer.Gyōki, Japan (668–749) Buddhist monk, cartographer, surveyor, and civil engineer,.Eratosthenes, Ptolemaic Egypt (276 BC–194 BC), Greek scientist, mathematician, geographer, and cartographer.350 BC–285 BC), philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author Hecataeus of Miletus, Greek Anatolia (550 BC–476 BC), geographer, cartographer, and early ethnographer.Anaximander, Greek Anatolia (610 BC–546 BC), first to attempt making a map of the known world.Ptolemy's 150 CE world map (as redrawn in the 15th century)

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