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Also Known As Petrus Nonius
Born 1502 • Portugal
Died August 11, 1578 (aged 76) • Coimbra • Portugal
Muḥammad al-Idrīsī
Arab geographer
Leopold, Baron von Buch
German geologist
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
Aaron Arrowsmith, engraving by T.A. Dean after a portrait by H.W. Pickersgill
Aaron Arrowsmith
British geographer and cartographer
Philippe Buache
French geographer and cartographer
Arnaud-Michel d’Abbadie
French geographer
Antoine-Thomson d’Abbadie
French geographer
Eduard Brückner
Austrian geographer and climatologist
François-Emile Matthes
American geologist
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and author
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Strabo
Strabo
Greek geographer and historian
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Title page of Richard Hakluyt's The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation
Richard Hakluyt
British geographer
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
Halford Mackinder
Halford Mackinder
British political geographer