Who is credited for being the first cartographer?
Cartography is the study of map making and cartographers are map makers. Before 1400 * Anaximander, Greek Anatolia, (610 BC-546 BC), first to attempt making a map of the (known) world * Hecataeus, Greek Anatolia (550 BC-476 BC), geographer, cartographer, and early ethnographer * Dicaearchus, Greece (circa 350 BC-285 BC), philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author * Eratosthenes, Ptolemaic Egypt, (276 BC-194 BC) a Greek scientist, mathematician, geographer, and cartographer * Hipparchus, Greece, (190 BC-120 BC), astronomer, cartographer, geographer * Isidore of Seville, Spain (560-636) * Al-Idrisi, Sicily (1100-1166), Arab cartographer, geographer and traveller. * Liu An, China (179 BC-122 BC), geographer, cartographer, author of the Huainanzi * Ptolemy, Ptolemaic Egypt, (circa 85-165), a Greek astronomer, cartographer, geographer * Petrus Vesconte, Genovese cartographer, author of the oldest signed Portolan chart (1311) * Shen Kuo, China (1031-1095), a polymath scient
