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William Camden used smaller scale versions of Saxton's maps in his Britannia Atlas.

William Smith was producing maps at this time but his work was not recognised until 40 years after his death. For nearly two centuries afterwards this remained the definite basis for all new British atlases and maps. Saxton's Atlas of England and Wales published. The astronomer Tycho Brahe applied triangulation in Scandinavia, completing a detailed triangulation of the island of Hven, where his observatory was based. Bridges over rivers were depicted but no roads and there was little indication that he applied triangulation.

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Laurence Nowell, a son or nephew of John Nowell of Read Hall died leaving unpublished a series of new and more accurate maps.Ĭhristopher Saxton's map of Lancashire included Huncot, Altham, Martholme, Ryshton, Church, Akrington and Dunkenhalghe. Around this time Leonard and Thomas Digges devised the theodolyte. Ortelius published a supplement to his atlas including a better map of England and Wales drawn by Humphrey Lhuyd.Ĭhristopher Saxton was commissioned by Thomas Seckford to survey and map England and Wales. Gerard Mercator's larger scale effort was little better.įirst 'Atlas' published by Abraham Ortelius incorporated Mercator's map of Britain. Sebastian Munster published a revised edition of Ptolemy's Geographia.įirst copper-engraved map published by George Lily, artistic but not accurate. King Henry VIII commissioned maps of the entire English coastline for defensive purposes. This became very influential, and the technique spread across Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. The Dutch cartographer Gemma Frisius proposed using triangulation to accurately position far-away places for map-making in his pamphlet Libellus de Locorum describendorum ratione (Booklet concerning a way of describing places). It was called the Bodleian or Gough Map because it passed from the antiquary and topographer Richard Gough to the Bodleian Library in 1799. The first relatively accurate portrayal of Britain in map form was by an anonymous mapmaker on two joined skins of vellum. Portolan sea charts made in Spain and Italy were reasonably good maps of the Mediterranean coasts and harbours but they depicted Britain very poorly. The Hereford Map is the largest surviving example of a T in O map. Medieval (T in O) maps were largely schematic and based on religious mystical conceptions that the earth was the centre of a universe divided into four elements - fire, water, air and earth. on which there was complete agreement and seemed credible, excluding what was contradictory.'ĭeforestation of Lancashire began when King John sold rights to freemen permitting them to clear assarts for arable use. To produce the work al-Idrisi interviewed experienced travellers individually and in groups on their knowledge of the world and compiled 'only that part. It remained the most accurate world map for the next three centuries. The map is oriented with the North at the bottom. The book, written in Arabic, is divided into seven climate zones (in keeping with the established Ptolemaic system), each of which is sub-divided into ten sections, and contains maps showing the Eurasian continent in its entirety, but only the northern part of the African continent. Al-Idrisi worked on the commentaries and illustrations of the map for fifteen years at the court of the Norman King Roger II of Sicily, who commissioned the work around 1138. The Tabula Rogeriana (The Book of Roger in Latin), is a description of the world and world map created by the Arab geographer, Muhammad al-Idrisi, in 1154. This 3 ft squared map features a graduated scale of 100 li for each rectangular grid showing China's coastline and river systems. The Yu Ji Tu, or Map of the Tracks of Yu Gong, carved into stone is located in the Stele Forest of Xian. A parchment scroll copy made by a monk in Colmar in the thirteenth century, (0.34 m high and 6.75 m long) is the only known surviving Roman map.

The Tabula Peutingeriana was a linear diagrammatic map of main roads in the Roman Empire. The Antonine Itinerary listed main roads in the Roman Empire. It dates from either the Bronze or Early Iron Age and wasn’t used to direct from A to B but to seek reassurance from the gods during the unsettling transition between food supplies being hunted and gathered and the development of crop planting.Īn instrument known as an astrolabe was in use for determining latitude, surveying and triangulation.Ĭlaudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy) the Greek scientist and mathematician who lived in Alexandria wrote his 'Geographia' guide to the world based upon surveys done by Marinus of Tyre and reports from travellers. The Bedolina map carved on rocks in the Eastern Alps of Northern Italy is one of the oldest representations of territory in the world. Roy's information site on Huncoat, History, Walking and Weather etc.

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