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May 29, 2023
Hereford Mappa Mundi
The next map in our series of Ancient Maps was created much closer to the time when maps began to be more common...
May 12, 2023
Ancient Babylonian Maps
Babylonian is a term often used to describe the ancient cultural region of the Fertile Crescent called Mesopotamia, w...
May 7, 2023
Ancient Maps
We hope you have been enjoying our blog entries describing the lives of a few of the best known cartographers of the ...
Jan 28, 2023
Map Maker Biography: Martin Waldseemüller (c. 1470 – 1520)
Universalis Cosmographia 1507
Martin Waldseemüller was a brilliant German humanist, academic, cartographer and co...
Dec 24, 2022
Map Maker Biography: Vincenzo Coronelli (1650–1718)
Franciscan friar Vincenzo Coronelli - cartographer, geographer, printer, inventor, author of books and treatises, wa...
Dec 9, 2022
Map Maker Biography: Pieter van der Aa (1659–1733)
T Amerikaans Gewest van Florida Door Ferdinand de Soto
Pieter van der Aa was a highly respected and renowned publ...
Nov 19, 2022
Map Maker Biography: Johannes Janssonius (1588 – 1664)
Renowned 17th century cartographer, publisher, engraver and entrepreneur Johannes Janssonius (Jan Jansson in English...
Nov 17, 2022
Map Maker Biography: Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 - 1743)
Henri Abraham Chatelain, a cartographer, talented artist, prolific producer and publisher of maps and encyclopedic a...
Apr 6, 2022
Regnier Gemma Frisius (1508 – 1555)
Regnier Gemma Frisius – mathematician, physician, geographer, astronomer, maker of maps, globes and scientific in...
Mar 24, 2022
Map Maker Biography: John Speed (1552 - 1629)
First career
Historian, geographer, cartographer John Speed is one of the first English born cartographers of n...
Feb 27, 2022
Map Maker Biography: Nicolas Sanson (1600 – 1667)
Cartographer/geographer Nicolas Sanson is considered by many to be the founder of the French school of cartography,...
Feb 23, 2022
Map Maker Biography: Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571 – 1638)
Cartographer Willem Janszoon Blaeu was the founder of what would become one of western Europe’s greatest cartographi...