Question

Name of some cartographers and their map

Answer 1

Answer:

Before 1400

Ptolemy's 150 CE world map (as redrawn in the 15th century)

Anaximander, Greek Anatolia (610 BC–546 BC), first to attempt making a map of the known world

Hecataeus of Miletus, Greek Anatolia (550 BC–476 BC), geographer, cartographer, and early ethnographer

Dicaearchus, Greece (c. 350 BC–285 BC), philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author

Ende, Spain (c. 1000 AD), illustrator, cartographer, nun

15th century

Jacobus Angelus, Florence, translated Ptolemy into Latin c. 1406

Martin Behaim (Germany, 1436–1507)

Benedetto Bordone (Venetian Republic (1460–1551)

Sebastian Cabot (1476–1557), Venetian explorer

Erhard Etzlaub (1460–1532)

Leonardo da Vinci (Italy, 1452–1519)

16th century

Giovanni Battista Agnese (c. 1500–1564), Genoese, cartographer, author of numerous nautical atlases

Hacı Ahmet, Tunisian cartographer, translated 16th c. map into Turkish for the Ottoman Empire.

Peter Apian (1495–1552), also known as Peter Bienewitz, German geographer and astronomer, author of the Apianus projection

Philipp Apian (1531–1589)

17th century

Pieter van der Aa (Netherlands, 1659–1733)

João Teixeira Albernaz I (Portugal, died c. 1664), prolific cartographer, son of Luís Teixeira

João Teixeira Albernaz II (Portugal, died c. 1699), Portuguese cartographer

Pedro Teixeira Albernaz (Portugal, c. 1595–1662), Portuguese cartographer author of an important atlas of the Iberian Peninsula and a map of Portugal (1656)

18th century

John Senex (1690–1740), engraver, publisher, surveyor and geographer to Queen Anne[5]

John Lodge Cowley, cartographer, mathematician and geographer

Emanuel Bowen (1693/4–1767), engraver and map maker[6]

Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres (1721–1824), created Atlantic Neptune

19th century

John James Abert (United States, 1788–1863), headed the Corps of Topographical Engineers for 32 years and organized the mapping of the American West

John Arrowsmith (England, 1790–1873), member of the Arrowsmith family of geographers

Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe (France, 1761–1824), also artist and longtime strategic advisor to Napoleon

20th century

Bernard J. S. Cahill (1867–1944), inventor of octahedral "Butterfly Map" of the world

Leslie George Bullock (1895–1971)

George Comer (1858–1937)

James Ireland Craig (1868–1952), inventor of the Craig retroazimuthal projection, otherwise known as the Mecca projection

Marion A. Frieswyk (United States, 1922– ), first female intelligence cartographer in the Central Intelligence Agency

John Paul Goode (1862–1932), created the "Evil Mercator" and Goode’s World Atlas

Max Eckert-Greifendorff (Germany, 1868–1938)

Hermann Haack (Germany, 1872–1966)

Günther Hake (1922–2000)

Richard Edes Harrison (1901–1994)

Tom Harrisson (1911–1976)

21st century

Cynthia Brewer (United States, 1957– ), developed ColorBrewer, professor and department head at Penn State University

Emanuela Casti (1950– ), formalized a semiotic theory of geographic maps

Danny Dorling (1968– ), developed circular cartograms

Emily Garfield, (1987– ), cartographic artist

Mark Newman (1968– ), developed area contiguous cartograms using a diffusion-based method

Barbara Petchenik (1939–1992), first woman to serve as Vice President of the International Cartographic Association

Paula Scher (United States, 1948–), graphic designer, painter

Nikolas Schiller (1980– ), Arabesque maps composed of kaleidoscopic aerial photographs

Joni Seagar (United States 1954–), professor of Geography at the University of Vermont

Kira B. Shingareva (Russia, 1938–2013), first person to successfully map the dark side of the moon

Dr. E. Lee Spence (1947– ), pioneer underwater archaeologist, decorative, historical maps showing shipwreck locations

Waldo R. Tobler (1930–2018), developed the first law of geography

Judith Tyner (United States, 1939– ), professor of Geography at California State University, Long Beach

Denis Wood (United States, 1945– ), artist, author, and former professor of Design at North Carolina State University

Jess Miller (United States, 1988- ), artist, photographer, and cartographer of rural Arkansas