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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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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