List of Cartographers - 16th Century

16th Century

  • Giovanni Battista Agnese (c. 1500–1564) Genoese cartographer, author of numerous nautical atlases
  • Peter Apian (1495–1552) – Also known as Peter Bienewitz German geographer and astronomer, author of the Apianus projection
  • Philipp Apian (1531–1589)
  • Joost Janszoon Bilhamer (Netherlands, 1541–1590)
  • Willem Janszoon Blaeu (Netherlands, 1571–1638) – Father of Joan Blaeu
  • Giovanni Battista Boazio (?–?) – Mapped Sir Francis Drake's voyage to the West Indies and America
  • Jacob Roelofs van Deventer, (Netherlands, c 1510/15–1575)
  • Fernão Vaz Dourado (India, c. 1520–c. 1580) – Portuguese cartographer of the school initiated by Lopo Homem
  • Oronce Finé (France, 1494–1555)
  • Gemma Frisius (or Reiner Gemma) (Netherlands, Ned Flanders, 1508–1555)
  • Martin Helwig (Germany, 1516–1574)
  • Lopo Homem (Portugal?–1565) – Co-author, with the Reinel family, of the well-known Miller Atlas
  • Diogo Homem (Portugal 1521–1576) – Cartographer, son of Lopo Homem
  • Jodocus Hondius (Flanders, England, Netherlands, 1563–1612)
  • Johannes Honterus (Transylvania, 1498–1549)
  • Gerard de Jode (Netherlands,Flanders, 1509–1591)
  • Jacques le Moyne (France, ca. 1533–1588)
  • Guillaume Le Testu (France, ca. 1509–1573)
  • Gerardus Mercator (Flanders, Netherlands, 1512–1594)
  • Sebastian Münster (Germany, 1488–1552)
  • Abraham Ortelius, (Flanders, 1527–1598) – Generally recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas
  • Petrus Plancius, (Netherlands, 1552–1622)
  • Timothy Pont, (Scotland, 1565–1614)
  • Pedro Reinel (Portugal ?–c. 1542) – Author of the oldest signed Portuguese nautical chart
  • Jorge Reinel (Portugal c. 1502–c. 1572) – Portuguese cartographer, son of Pedro Reinel
  • Diogo Ribeiro (Portugal, ?–Sevilha, 1533) – Author of the first known planisphere with a graduated Equator (1527)
  • Sebastião Lopes (Portugal 16th century) – Portuguese cartographer and cosmographer
  • Christopher Saxton, (England, born c 1540)
  • John Speed, (England, 1542–1629)
  • Fernando Álvares Seco (Portugal?–?) – Signed the oldest known map of Portugal, reproduced in various editions of Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
  • Luís Teixeira (Portugal ?–?) – Author of an important Atlas of Brazil
  • Bartolomeu Velho (Portugal ?–1568) – cosmographer and cartographer
  • Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer (Netherlands, 1533/34–1605/06) – Driver, cartographer
  • Edward Wright (mathematician) (England, 1561–1615) – Mathematician and cartographer

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