page_title: List of cartographers
section_title: 16th century
hierarchical_section_title: List of cartographers / 16th century
caption_attribution_description: Latin: Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio English: Planisphere made by Rumold Mercator, 1587 Español: Planisferio realizado por Rumold Mercator, 1587
context_page_description: Cartography is the study of map making and cartographers are map makers.
context_section_description: 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)
  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, 1508–1555)
  Martin Helwig (Germany, 1516–1574)
  Augustin Hirschvogel (Germany, 1503–1553)
  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 (Netherlands, 1563–1612)
  Johannes Honterus (Transylvania, 1498–1549)
  Gerard de Jode (Netherlands, 1509–1591)
  Urbano Monti (Italy, 1544–1613)
  Jacques le Moyne (France, ca. 1533–1588)
  Guillaume Le Testu (France, ca. 1509–1573)
  Jacobus Pentius de Leucho (Italy)
  Gerardus Mercator (Netherlands, 1512–1594)
  Sebastian Münster (Germany, 1488–1552)
  Abraham Ortelius (France, 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
  Bernardus Sylvanus (Italy)
  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
caption: Gerardus Mercator's 1587 world map
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