Jacob van Deventer
Dutch cartographer (1505-1575) · Scientists · Died at 70
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Something wrong?Jacob Roelofs van Deventer was a Netherlandish cartographer of the Renaissance. He is today best known for his work in systematically cartographing all towns and cities of the Habsburg Netherlands of his time.
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Jacob Roelofs van Deventer was a Netherlandish cartographer of the Renaissance. He is today best known for his work in systematically cartographing all towns and cities of the Habsburg Netherlands of his time. Van Deventer was among the first to make systematic use of triangulation, a technique whose theory was described by Gemma Frisius, one of his teachers at the University of Leuven.
Scientists born in the 1500s 6
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