1431) November 28 Hartmann Schedel, cartographer (b.

1502) May 26 Sebastian Münster, German cartographer and cosmographer (b.

1501) May 25 Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (b.

Lopo Homem, Portuguese cartographer and cosmographer was in the Board, Diogo Lopes de Sequeira was another of the participants, along with former Portuguese cartographer Diogo Ribeiro on the Spanish delegation.

The mapmaker misread the annotation as C. Nome , or Cape Nome, and used that name on his own chart the city in turn took its name from the cape.

Cartography It is thought that Jehuda Cresques, son of the Catalan cartographer Abraham Cresques have been one of the notable cartographers at the service of Prince Henry.

Verbiest worked as a diplomat and cartographer, and also as a translator, because he spoke Latin, German, Dutch, Spanish, Hebrew, and Italian.

João de Castro (7 February 1500 6 June 1548) was a Portuguese nobleman and fourth viceroy of Portuguese India.

He studied with Gemma Frisius and became a close friend of the cartographer Gerardus Mercator, returning to England with an important collection of mathematical and astronomical instruments.

However, Willem Blaeu, a Dutch uranographer active in the 16th and 17th centuries, drew Ara as an altar designed for sacrifice, with a burning animal offering.

Félix Manuel de Azara (18 May 1746 20 October 1821) was a Spanish military officer, naturalist, and engineer.

The Cantino map was composed by an anonymous Portuguese cartographer, and completed before November 1502, well before the Coelho expedition even set out.

With his son, cartographer Jorge Reinel and Lopo Homem, they participated in the making of the atlas known as Lopo Homem Reinés Atlas or Miller Atlas , in 1519.

An alternate theory is that Nome received its name through an error allegedly when a British cartographer copied an ambiguous annotation made by a British officer on a nautical chart, while on a voyage up the Bering Strait.

Gerardus Mercator (born 5 March 1512 in Rupelmonde, County of Flanders (in modern Belgium), died 2 December 1594 in Duisburg, United Duchies of Jülich Cleves Berg, (modern day Germany)) was a cartographer, philosopher and mathematician.

Piri Reis ( or Muhyiddin Pîrî Bey also known as Hacı Ahmed Muhi Aldin Piri Reis being a military rank) was an Ottoman admiral, geographer, and cartographer born between 1465 and 1470.

Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho, GCTE, GCC, generally known simply as Gago Coutinho ( 17 February 1869 18 February 1959) was a Portuguese aviation pioneer who, together with Sacadura Cabral (1881 1924), was the first to cross the South Atlantic Ocean by air, from March to June 1922 (some sources wrongly claim 1919), from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro.

Geography In the 16th century, the Polish bishop and cartographer Martin Kromer published a Latin atlas, entitled Poland about Its Location, People, Culture, Offices and the Polish Commonwealth , which was regarded as the most comprehensive guide to the country.

The problem of redefining Europe was finally resolved in 1730 when, instead of waterways, the Swedish geographer and cartographer von Strahlenberg proposed the Ural Mountains as the most significant eastern boundary, a suggestion that found favour in Russia and throughout Europe.

The first depiction of the constellation was provided in 1589 by Flemish astronomer and clergyman Petrus Plancius on a 32½ cm diameter celestial globe published in Amsterdam by Dutch cartographer Jacob Floris van Langren, where it was called Triangulus Antarcticus and incorrectly portrayed to the south of Argo Navis.

According to other archival material drawings El Greco sent to a Cretan cartographer he was in Venice by 1568.g. Mancini reports that El Greco said to the Pope that if the whole work was demolished he himself would do it in a decent manner and with seemliness.