List of Mapmakers – List of Cartographers

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Mar 182011
 

The list of Mapmakers/Cartographers below is not complete by any means. If I have left a cartographer, mapmaker off the list or made an error please leave a comment below and I will update the list accordingly. Aa, Pieter van der Aikin, John Anson, George Arbuckle Bros Archer, Joshua Armstrong, Mostyn John Arrowsmith, Aaron Arrowsmith, John Bacon, George Washington Badeslade, [continue reading]

Bertius Map of Bengal, India 1603

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Mar 182011
 
Bertius Map of Bengal, India 1603

Bertius Map of Bengal, India 1603 – Bengala Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University in Holland. He is known for his miniature world atlas ‘Tabularum geographicarum contractarum’. Although not an actual mapmaker himself, Bertius’s text was embellished with maps from the foremost engravers of the late 1500′s and early [continue reading]