LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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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