Abraham Cresques

Abraham Cresques (1325–1387) was a Jewish cartographer born in Palma, the leading master of the Majorcan cartographic school. Besides maps he made clocks, compasses and other nautical instruments.

Together with his son Jehuda Cresques he produced the Catalan Atlas in 1375, a set of chart-tablets commissioned by the Crown of Aragon and one of the most celebrated mappae mundi of the later Middle Ages, blending Mediterranean portolan knowledge with reports from Asia and Africa.