Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The book commonly known as Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, the fifth volume of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Sive Atlas Novus, is the first known atlas of Scotland and Ireland. [1] It was compiled by Joan Blaeu , and contains 49 engraved maps and 154 pages of descriptive text written in Latin ; it was first published in 1654. [ 1 ]
In 1654, Blaeu published the first atlas of Scotland, devised by Timothy Pont. Fiercely competitive with his contemporary Johannes Janssonius as to which of them could make an atlas with a higher quantity of maps, Blaeu in 1662 published the Atlas Maior, it had 11 volumes and included 600 maps.
Joan later published the Atlas of England (1648) with maps of John Speed, the Atlas of Scotland (1654) with maps of Timothy Pont and Robert Gordon, and Martino Martini's Novus Atlas Sinensis (Atlas of China, 1655), which were added as respectively the fourth, fifth and sixth volumes of Blaeu's Atlas Novus.
Caleb George Cash (1857–1916), honorary fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (FRSGS), was a geographer, passionate mountaineer, and music and geography teacher, known for his work on preserving the maps of medieval Scotland made by Timothy Pont (c.1560–c.1627), which formed the basis for the Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, and for ...
This atlas was said to be the first delineation of Scotland made from actual survey and measurement. Gordon made other maps, and revised many others, adding geographical descriptions, and prefixing an introduction in Blaeu, in which a comprehensive view is given of the constitution and antiquities of the country. These dissertations were one of ...
The earliest known record of the name is as "Lassody", describing a tower in the Blaeu Atlas of Scotland of 1654. [3] The first known use of the area was as the site of a mill in the 18th century, [4] and then as a farm, known as Braehead, belonging to the Dewar family, who held the Lairdship of Lassodie. [5]
Blaeu's 1654 Atlas of Scotland - The Small Isles. Rùm is at centre, surrounded by "Kannay', 'Egg' and 'Muck'. Ordnance Survey Map of 1896. The Small Isles (Scottish Gaelic: Na h-Eileanan Tarsainn [2]) are a small archipelago in the Inner Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland.
The Blaeu Atlas of Scotland (1654) is the first to indicates a named dwelling, this being "March-dike (dyik)-foot". [16] General Roy's Military Survey of Scotland undertaken from 1747 – 1752, indicates both "Craws Know", "English town" and "Scots Dyke"; however, March-dike-foot is not shown by that name. [18]