cartographers are map makers, Cartography is the study of map making.
| Cartographers Name |
During |
Place |
Achievement/ Occupation |
| Dicaearchus |
circa(350–285) BC |
Messana in Sicily |
first to use geographical coordinates |
| Hipparchus |
190 B.C. - 120 B.C. |
Nicaea (Turkey) |
did astronomical observations in the period from 147 BC to 127 BC |
| Isidore of Seville |
560 - 636 |
Cartagena, Spain |
involved in the conversion of the royal Visigothic Arians to Catholicism |
| Ptolemy |
circa (85-165) |
Ptolemais Hermiou |
mathematician, geographer, astronomer, astrologer |
| Al-Idrisi |
1100-1166 |
North Africa |
Arab geographer, cartographer and traveller |
| Philipp Apian |
1495 - 1552 |
Ingolstadt |
German mathematician and medic |
| Martin Behaim |
1436 - 1507 |
Nuremberg |
German navigator and geographer to the King of Portugal. |
| Erhard Etzlaub |
1460 - 1532 |
Erfurt, Germany. |
astronomer, geodesist, cartographer, instrument maker and physician. |
| Sebastian Mnster |
1488 - 1552 |
Ingelheim, Mainz |
His work, the Cosmographia from 1544 was the earliest German description of the world |
| Piri Reis |
1465 - 1554 |
Turkey. |
Ottoman-Turkish admiral, geographer and cartographer |
| Hartmann Schedel |
1440 - 1514 |
Bavaria |
German physician, humanist and historian |
| Amerigo Vespucci |
1454 - 1512 |
Florence, Italy |
known for Demonstrating New World was not Asia but | previously-unknown fourth continent |
| Martin Waldseemller |
circa (1470 - 1521) |
Freiburg im Breisgau |
credited with the first recorded usage of the word America, on the 1507 map Universalis Cosmographia |
| Johan Blaeu |
1599 - 1673 |
Alkmaar, Netherlands |
well-known for its traditional cheese market (cultural center in netherlands) |
| Willem Blaeu |
1571 - 1638 |
Dutch |
Dutch cartographer, atlas maker and publisher. |
| Martin Heilwig |
1516 - 1574 |
Nysa, Poland |
In 1561 he copper-etched a map, a single-sheet cartouche of Silesia |
| Henricus Hondius |
1597 - 1651 |
Flanders, Netherlands |
engraver and cartographer |
| Jodocus Hondius, |
1563 - 1612 |
Wakken, West Flanders. |
known for his early maps of the New World and Europe |
| Jan Janssonius |
1588 - 1664 |
Arnhem, Netherlands |
Dutch cartographer |
| Gerard de Jode |
1509 - 1591 |
Nijmegen, Netherlands, |
worked for Gastaldi's map and other maps of the world |
| Gerardus Mercator |
1512 - 1594 |
Rupelmonde in East Flanders |
Flemish cartographer |
| A. Matthus Merian |
1593 - 1650 |
Basel, Switzerland |
notable Swiss engraver. |
| Abraham Ortelius, |
1527 - 1598 |
Antwerp, Belgium |
recognised as the creator of the first modern atlas. |
| John Speed |
1542 - 1629 |
Farndon, England |
historian |
| Vincenzo Coronelli |
1650 - 1718 |
Venice |
Franciscan monk, an Italian cosmographer. |
| Guillaume Delisle, |
1675 - 1726 |
Paris |
French cartographer who lived in Paris. |
| Johann Homann, |
1664 - 1724 |
Oberkammlach, Bavaria |
German geographer and cartographer |
| Peter Schenk |
1660 - 1718 |
Wuppertal, Germany |
created mostly maps, historical sights and scenes. |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Karl |
died 1743 |
Berlin, Germany |
royal Prussian Lieutenant-General |
| Matthias Seutter |
1678 - 1757 |
Southern Germany. |
German map publishers of the 18th century |
| Johann Friedrich |
1755 |
Royal Prussia |
Royal Mathematician to King Augustus III of Poland. |
| Thomas Jefferys |
1710 - 1771 |
North America. |
published maps of several English counties |
| George Bradshaw |
1801 - 1853 |
Windsor Bridge, Lancashire |
printer, publisher, originator of the railway timetable. |
