Cartographer

Simon Stevin

Mathematics

1548–1620

"The seventh Definition. The Golden Rule, or Rule of three, is that by which to three tearmes given, the fourth proportionall tearme is found."

🇫🇷Jacques Bertin

History

1918–2010

"There are as many types of questions as components in the information."

🇬🇧Richard Francis Burton

Military

1821–1890

"Sir Richard Francis Burton and General Charles "Chinese" Gordon"

🇬🇧Valentine Blacker

Military

1778–1826

"Blacker, with the exception of Col Everest, was the ablest and most scientific man that ever presided over this expensive department"

🇺🇸Arthur H. Robinson

Philosophy

1915–2004

"Our experience in the Cartographic Section of the Division clearly showed that the creation of a special purpose map was frequently as much a problem in design as it was a problem in substantive compilation."

Edmond Halley

Science

1656–1742

"Wherefore, if, according to what we have already said, it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman."

Al-Biruni

Mathematics

973–1050

"The Hindus believe that there is no country but theirs. no nation like theirs, no king like theirs, no religion like theirs, no science like theirs."

John Dee

Science

1527–1609

"The J.W. Hamilton-Jones translation of Monas Hieroglyphica from Twilit Grotto: Archives of Western Esoterica"

🇩🇪Alexander von Humboldt

Philosophy

1767–1835

"Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things."

John Ogilby

Business

1600–1676

"Begin, sweet Babe, with smiles thy Mother know."

Robert E. Lee

Military

1807–1870

"I think it would be better for Virginia if she could get rid of them. That is no new opinion with me. I have always thought so, and have always been in favor of emancipation - gradual emancipation."

Ibn Battuta

Literature

1304–1368

"“Minced meat cooked with almond, walnut, pistachios, onion and spices placed inside a thin bread and fried in ghee."

🇬🇧Gerald of Wales

Religion

1146–1220

"Giraldus mingles in the crowd, catches its accents, is borne along by its changing passions, and thus becomes a very mirror of that fighting, chaffering, praying age."