Some Notable Surveyors and Map-Makers of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries and Their Work : A Study in the History of Cartography (Paperback)

1. The Elizabethan surveyors, their work, and its influence on the British cartography of the seventeenth century; 2. The French school of cartography of the seventeenth century; 3. Cartography as an exact science. Its development in the eighteenth century in France; 4. British cartography of the second half of the eighteenth century, its connection with the triangulation of France, and the ordnance survey; Conclusion; List of works of reference; Index.