Sentence examples for a mapmaker from inspiring English sources

In 1728, Ephraim Chambers, a mapmaker in London, published the Cyclopaedia – the first encyclopedia to include cross references.

It is a portrait by Vincent Vander Vinne of a mapmaker looking up intently from his charts.

No one can discount Webber's multiple talents -- how many big lugs can pass with the delicate precision of a mapmaker?

Fremont, born in Georgia in 1813, had begun as a mapmaker in the Army Topographical Corps and quickly advanced to lead his own surveys of the Far West.

Without a formal education Arrowsmith went to London c. 1770 and, after working as a surveyor, established himself as a mapmaker and publisher.

They met at the Art Institute of Chicago after World War II, in which Mr. Golub served as a mapmaker for the Eighth Air Force.

Fawcett was a recipient of the Gold Medal, the highest honor bestowed on an explorer by the Royal Geographical Society; a skilled mapmaker; and a decorated hero of the First World War.

Merton Edward Davies, a celestial mapmaker and a pioneer in spy satellite technology, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Santa Monica, Calif.

The play then flashes back to the story of how in 1916 Lawrence transformed himself from a Cairo mapmaker into a leader of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman empire.

In 1504, an anonymous mapmaker – most likely an Italian – carved a meticulous depiction of the known world into two halves of conjoined ostrich eggs.

Given a source and a goal, the mapmaker derives a navigational path based on the topological relationships between landmarks.