# Bernhard Ripking

> 1682-1719, electoral Hanoverian surveyor, master machinist, mining expert, experimental physicist, mechanic and geodesist correspondent of Leibniz; created the oldest map sheet ever to be provided with digital elevation data

**Wikidata**: [Q55193558](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55193558)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/bernhard-ripking


## References

1. Integrated Authority File
2. Catalog of the German National Library
3. [Source](https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz106011.html)
4. Deutsche Biographie