English map-making, 1500-1650
Subtitle: historical essays
By: edited by Sarah Tyacke.
Contributors: Tyacke, Sarah.
Publisher: British Library
Published: 1983
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 125
Subjects: Cartography -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Cartography -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Sarah Tyacke; title: Meaning and ambiguity in Tudor cartography / J.B. Harley; title: The literary image of globes and maps in early modern England / Victor Morgan; title: Italian military engineers in Britain in the 1540s / Marcus Merriman; title: Three Elizabethan estate surveyors / Peter Eden; title: Ralph Treswell's surveys of London houses, c1612 / John Schofield; title: Mathematical instrument-making in London in the sixteenth century / G.L'E. Turner; title: The cross-staff as a surveying instrument in England, 1500-1640 / John Roche; title: Christopher Saxton's surveying / William Ravenhill.