That Prince Henry was probably of the same opinion as the ordinary cartographer of his time about the peninsular shape of Africa.
A long escort of men and camels accompanied them into the merciless desert, with its burning heat and drifting sands--"the Sea of Sahara" as the old cartographer calls it.
The cartographer at his table beneath a shaded acetylene light drew maps and sketched, the magnetician was busy on calculations close by.
Excitement was intense while the cartographerin clerical glasses worked out the unknown number.
A member of several sledging parties, he acted as Cartographer to the party which reached Gaussberg.
A member of the Main Base Party (Adelie Land), he took part in several sledging journeys, and throughout two years in the Antarctic acted in the capacity of Cartographer and Sketch Artist, as well as that of Assistant Meteorologist.
The wind was blowing at eighty miles per hour, making it tedious work groping about and hallooing in the drift.
Every morning, Madigan visited all the meteorological instruments and changed the daily charts; at times having to feel his way from one place to the other.
His son was a conspicuouscartographer (Nouvelle biographie générale).
In the former case the cartographer is merely called upon to reduce and generalize the information given by his originals, to make a judicious selection of place names, and to take care that the map is not overcrowded with names and details.
It will suffice therefore to point out that the ordinary needs of the cartographer can be met by conical projections, and, in the case of maps covering a wide area, by Lambert's equal area projection.
Venice, to have them combined in a large mappemonde; and Fra Mauro was entrusted with the making of it, in which he was assisted by Andrea Bianco, a famous cartographer of the time.
This cartographer was the earliest to introduce into the plane delineation of the globe the now palpable division of its surface into an eastern and western hemisphere.
It is not clear from Lauridsen's account whether in the above list are or are not included the two mates, Richard Engel and George Morison, or the cartographer Potiloff, who started with Bering from St. Petersburg.
This is a reconstruction of the map which Columbus got from the Italian astronomer and cartographer Toscanelli and used to guide him in his voyage across the Atlantic.
The numerous maps in his book were made by Herman Moll, a well-known cartographer of that day.
The Allard map of 1673, from which our engraved view is taken, was the second by that cartographer of New Netherland, who retouched the plate of the earlier one, which had been mainly a reproduction of N.
Harrisse observes that it appears the cartographer thought of Columbus as the discoverer of the West India Islands only, and that he thought the honor of the discovery of the American continents, north and south, belongs to Vespucius.
In the edition of 1562, which repeated the map, the cartographer Moletta (Moletius) testified that its geography had been confirmed “by letters and marine charts sent to us from divers parts.
The form "brazil" may have arisen through the cartographer connecting the name with the valuable brazil-wood, used for dyeing.
But as it is said in the same passage that Greenland forms the western end of Europe, we cannot suppose that the cartographer was acquainted with this work.
The work is accompanied by several charts which must have been drawn by the well-known cartographer Pietro Vesconte in 1320, since an atlas bearing his name has been found in the Vatican with charts that completely correspond.
If the cartographer was acquainted with the representation of Greenland on the Clavus maps, the probability becomes still greater that he had definite authority for his west coast, since it differs from that of the Clavus maps.
They had not indeed been altogether forgotten, for Marino Sanuto in 1306 had delineated them on a map given by Camden, though this cartographer omitted them on later charts.
In the same year the Italian cartographer Furlani, or Forlani, showed how he had advanced from the views which he held in 1560, in a map of the northern Pacific, which is annexed.
In 1727 the English cartographer Moll converted the same inlet into the inevitable Straits of Anian.
The map given here was drafted by Don Diego de Prado, the cartographer of Queiroz' fleet.
