Occupation: Cartographer

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Occupation: Cartographer

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Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Anaximander Philosopher c. 609 BC c. 546 BC First to develop a cosmology

Louis Alexandre Berthier Military 20-Feb-1753 1-Jun-1815 Napoleon's chief of staff

George Phillips Bond Astronomer 20-May-1825 17-Feb-1865 Father of astrophotography

Sebastian Cabot Explorer 1476 1557 16th century Italian/English explorer

Jacques Dominique Cassini Astronomer 30-Jun-1748 18-Oct-1845 Director, Observatoire de Paris

James Cook Explorer 27-Oct-1728 14-Feb-1779 Explorer of the South Pacific

George Everest Explorer 4-Jul-1790 1-Dec-1866 Namesake of Mt. Everest

Carl Friedrich Gauss Mathematician 30-Apr-1777 23-Feb-1855 Perhaps the greatest German mathematician

Eusebio Kino Religion 10-Aug-1645 15-Mar-1711 Jesuit missionary to Mexico

Gerard Mercator Cartographer 5-Mar-1512 2-Dec-1594 The Mercator Projection

Sebastian Münster Cartographer 20-Jan-1488 23-May-1552 Cosmographia Universalis

Abraham Ortelius Cartographer 14-Apr-1527 4-Jul-1598 Theatrum Orbis Terrarum atlas

Ptolemy Astronomer c. 87 AD c. 150 AD Egyptian geographer and astronomer

Martin Waldseemuller Cartographer 1475 1522 Put America on the map

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