. Scottish geographical magazine. JW. 3w ^cnpY nn KVr^ Coast-line of British Isles. By Pierre Desceliers, 1546. the first atlas. Almost all his maps are copies, and he mentions wherethe information was obtained. Ortelius was a dealer, collector, andintelligent publisher, but did not engrave maps or execute surveys. Inhis Atlas is given a valuable list of all the maps he had been able toaccumulate, and in it is to be found the work by Humphrey Lhuyd(see Nordenskiolds Facsimile Atlas.) This Lhuyd, or Lloyd was a THE EVOLUTION OF THE MAP OF SCOTLAND. 299 physician at Denbridge, an antiquary, trav
. Scottish geographical magazine. JW. 3w ^cnpY nn KVr^ Coast-line of British Isles. By Pierre Desceliers, 1546. the first atlas. Almost all his maps are copies, and he mentions wherethe information was obtained. Ortelius was a dealer, collector, andintelligent publisher, but did not engrave maps or execute surveys. Inhis Atlas is given a valuable list of all the maps he had been able toaccumulate, and in it is to be found the work by Humphrey Lhuyd(see Nordenskiolds Facsimile Atlas.) This Lhuyd, or Lloyd was a THE EVOLUTION OF THE MAP OF SCOTLAND. 299 physician at Denbridge, an antiquary, traveller, and the author of thefirst modern map of England. The first edition of his great atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, waspublished 1570, and the following are a few of the editions whichfollowed—1573, 1579, 1584, 1595, 1606. Editions appeared with thetext in many languages, and, after 1600, in English. This atlas had agreat sale, and through this work the neighbouring country, Holland,became for a time the centre for map-publishi
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