The most common is Martin Waldseemüller's deriving it from Americus Vespucius, the Latinised version of Amerigo Vespucci's name, the Italian merchant and cartographer who explored South America's east coast and the Caribbean sea in the early 16th century.

In 1492, Martin Behaim, a German cartographer, made the oldest extant globe of the Earth.

Martin Waldseemüller ( Latinized Martinus Ilacomylus, Ilacomilus or Hylacomylus, c. 1470, Wolfenweiler, Baden – Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, Lorraine 1520, March 16 ) was a German cartographer.

Martin Helwig () ( 5 November 1516 – 26 January 1574 ) was a German cartographer of and from Silesia and

It first appears on a small globe map with twelve time zones, together with the largest wall map made to date, both created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in France.

* January 26 – Martin Helwig, German cartographer of Silesia ( b. 1516 )

* October 6 – Martin Behaim, German explorer and cartographer ( d. 1507 )

* November 5 – Martin Helwig, German cartographer of Silesia ( d. 1574 )

The traditionally accepted person attributed to the naming is cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, who used the Latinized feminine form of Amerigo Vespucci's first name, " America ", on his world map of 1507, which has survived the centuries.

Radolfzell was the birthplace of the cartographer Martin Waldseemüller's mother.

* Martin Helwig, cartographer

William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington ( 12 April 1856 at Rochester, England – 19 April 1937 at London ), known as Sir Martin Conway between 1895 and 1931, was an English art critic, politician, cartographer and mountaineer.

* Martin Llewellyn, British cartographer ( born 1565?

Marcin Kromer or Martin Cromer ( German: Martin Cromer ; 1512 – 23 March 1589 ) was Prince-Bishop of Warmia ( Ermland ), a cartographer, diplomat and historian in Poland and later in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Martin Conway argued in 1901 that Carolus ' chart indicated he discovered Edgeøya, but, as Wielder points out, Conway was ignorant of a map ( engraved in 1612 ) by the Dutch cartographer Petrus Plancius, which illustrated a coastline to the east of Spitsbergen.

The effort was directed by the cartographer and mathematician Martin Hotine, head of the Trigonometrical and Levelling Division, who planned the operation in a manner similar to a military campaign.

Upon his return to Germany, Ringmann moved to Saint-Die in Lorraine with his friend Martin Waldseemüller, a cartographer with whom he was working on a new Latin edition of Ptolemy's treatise on geography.

John Wallis ( died 1818 ) was an English board game publisher, bookseller, map / chart seller, print seller, music seller, and cartographer.

This 1562 map by Diego Gutiérrez ( cartographer ) | Diego Gutiérrez was the first map to print the toponym California.

In Leuven, he worked with Gemma Frisius and Gaspar Myrica from 1535 to 1536 to construct a terrestrial globe, although the role of Mercator in the project was not primarily as a cartographer, but rather as a highly skilled engraver of brass plates.

Its first certain appearance was on a globe created by the Dutch cartographer Petrus Plancius in 1612 or 1613 and it was later charted by Jakob Bartsch as Unicornus in his star chart of 1624.

Tycho Brahe, who is usually given credit for Coma's promotion to constellation status, listed it in his star catalogue of 1602, but it originally occurred on a celestial globe by the cartographer Caspar Vopel from 1536.

In 1589 he collaborated with the Amsterdam cartographer Jacob Floris van Langren on a 32. 5-cm celestial globe, which, using the sparse information available about southern celestial features, for the first time depicted: Crux the southern cross, Triangulum Australe the southern triangle, and the Magellanic Clouds, Nubecula Major and Minor.

This globe was produced in collaboration with the Amsterdam cartographer Jodocus Hondius the Elder.

As a prominent cartographer, Bellingshausen was appointed to command the circumnavigation of the globe in 1819-1821, intended to explore the Southern Ocean and to find land in the proximity of the South Pole.

The Greek cartographer Crates summed it all up on a globe created in about 150 BC.

Primarily, a 1536 globe of cartographer Gemma Frisius depicts an area within the Arctic Circle, north of a strait dividing Terra Corterealis and Baccalearum Regio from the westward projection of Greenland.

In 1551, Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish cartographer, produced a celestial globe portraying the 48 traditional Ptolemaic constellations in addition to two others, Coma Berenices and Antinous.

Tycho Brahe was originally given credit for inventing Antinous, but current finds include a celestial globe by the cartographer Caspar Vopel from 1536 that contains Antinous, so Brahe simply measured up the sky according to modern cartographer traditions and decided to give Antinous a separate table in his star catalogue.

He was a priest, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, cosmographer, cartographer, mathematician, globe and scientific instrument maker and editor and publisher of scientific tests.

Map of Constantinople ( 1422 ) by Florentine cartographer Cristoforo Buondelmonti is the oldest surviving map of the city, and the only one that predates the Turkish conquest of the city in 1453

Arthur H. Robinson, an American cartographer influential in thematic cartography, stated that a map not properly designed " will be a cartographic failure.

How the cartographer displays the data in different hues can greatly affect the understanding or feel of the map.

The Imperial cartographer Johann Friedrich Endersch completed a map of Warmia () in 1755 and also made a copper etching of the galley named " The City of Elbląg " ().

The evidence is found in two early maps, one made by the Portuguese cartographer Pedro Reinel in about 1522, the very first map to show the Falklands, the other a French copy of a Portuguese map bought in Lisbon by André Thévet ( 1516-1590 ), a Franciscan friar and prolific writer on many subjects ; this copy is now in the manuscript of a large unpublished work by Thevet in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

Reconstruction of Ptolemy | Ptolemy's map ( 2nd century AD ) of Aria ( satrapy ) | Aria ( Herāt ) and neighbouring states by the 15th century German people | German cartographer Nicolaus Germanus

French cartographer Guillaume Delisle used the descriptions to make the first reasonably accurate map of the area.

The first historical evidence of the existence of an island now known as Mauritius is on a map produced by the Italian cartographer Alberto Cantino in 1502.

A celestial map from the 17th century, by the Dutch cartographer Frederik de Wit.

An Italian cartographer traveling with him created the first map of the Ohio River.

He gained fame as a cartographer when a small part of his first world map ( prepared in 1513 ) was discovered in 1929 at the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul.

In 1154 a town called Qlwn or Qalaven ( possible derivations of Kalevan or Kolyvan ) was put on the world map of the Almoravid by the Muslim cartographer Muhammad al-Idrisi, who described it as a small town like a large castle among the towns of Astlanda.

1558 ), Venetian cartographer and publisher of the Zeno map

For example, on a map dated about 1320 by the Genoese cartographer Giovanni di Carignano, who got his information about Africa from a fellow-countryman in Sijilmas trading city in North Africa, we find Gunuia, and in the Catalan atlas of 1375 as Ginyia.

In 1656, a map by French cartographer Nicolas Sanson, refers to the lake as Karegnondi, a Wendat word which has been variously translated as " Freshwater Sea ", " Lake of the Hurons ", or simply " lake ".

No name was given to it at the time, and it was not shown on the map by Bernardo Miera y Pacheco, the cartographer for the expedition.

* John Arrowsmith ( cartographer ) ( 1780 – 1873 ), geographer and map publisher

Hapgood also examined a 1531 map by French mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé ( aka Oronteus Finaeus ).

In 1968, however, extensive restoration works started, and fortifications were carefully rebuilt, based on and inspired by a 1649 map of the city of Heusden by Johannes Blaeu, son of the famous Dutch cartographer Willem Blaeu.

The earliest known reference to the river was on a 1732 map by French cartographer d ' Anville who labeled it the River of the Padoucas.