Biographies of Great Cartographers
Learn about people who brought the mapmaking craft to the perfection of an art form: Baron de Lahontan, Battista Agnese, Alexandre de Batz, Braun and Hogenberg, Cornelis de Jode, Frederick de Wit, Jacques Nicolas Bellin, Jan Jansson, Nicolaes Visscher, Nicholasc de Fer, Paulo Forlani, Samuel de Champlain, Sebastian Munster, Diego Gutiérrez, Jodocus Hondius, Joan & Wilem Blaeu, Abraham Ortelius, and Gerard Mercator!
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Explorers
Stories of Captain James Cook (1728-1779), Jean Francois Galaup, Comte de la Perouse (1741-1788), Captain John Meares (1746-1801), Captain George Vancouver (1758-1798), Christopher Columbus, about Vasco da Gama's trip around Africa to India (1497-1498), biographies of Jacques Cartier (1491-1557), Samuel de Champlain (c.1567 or 1570-1635), Gerard Magellan, and others.
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Famous Cartographic Works
Here you can find further details on four fabulous works of cartography: Hondius's Leo Belgicus map, Blaeu's collection of Dutch city maps, William Harvey's Geographical Fun atlas, and Abraham Ortelius' monumental Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, first modern atlas and the most expensive book of its time.
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Fun Facts about Cartography
This section delves deeper into the rich history of mapmaking and, more generally, ideas about the world as they changed through the centuries. What did the world look like according to Homer? Did the Chinese beat Columbus to America by over half a century?
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The Timeline
When did the famous cartographers and explorers live? Who were their contemporaries among the rulers, artists and philosophers? Find out here...