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Also Known As Hylacomylus • Martin Waltzemüller • Ilacomilus • Martin Walzenmüller
Born c.1470 • Germany
Died 1521? • Saint-Dié • France

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Aaron Arrowsmith, engraving by T.A. Dean after a portrait by H.W. Pickersgill
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John Adair
Scottish surveyor
Map from Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum orbis terrarum
Abraham Ortelius
Flemish cartographer
Bartholomew, John George
John George Bartholomew
Scottish cartographer and publisher
Leopold, Baron von Buch
German geologist
Wilhelm Schickard
German astronomer, mathematician, and cartographer
François-Emile Matthes
American geologist
Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and author
Muḥammad al-Idrīsī
Arab geographer
Gerardus Mercator; engraving by Franz Hogenberg, 1574.
Gerardus Mercator
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Simon Ushakov
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David Thompson
English explorer
Rennell, detail from a pencil sketch by G. Dance, 1794; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
James Rennell
British geographer
Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville
French cartographer
César-François Cassini de Thury
French surveyor
Gregory King
British statistician
Bartholomew Columbus
Italian explorer
Rodolfo Amadeo Lanciani
Italian archaeologist
Philippe Buache
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