Dictionary of Land Surveyors and Local Cartographers of Great Britain and Ireland, 1550-1850

Front Cover
Peter Eden
Dawson, 1975 - Reference - 528 pages

Contents

The evolution of the medieval sea chart
11
Fourteenthcentury Catalan world maps
20
Fra Mauro and Martin Behaim
27
The revival of Ptolemy
35
The cartography of the great discoveries
43
ix
49
19
61
Mercator Ortelius and their successors
79
The reformation of cartography in France
85
The British contribution to 1800
94
National surveys and world maps 18001975
115
Atlases and thematic maps
125
Contemporary cartography
135
Bibliography
144
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