Identifier: scottishgeograph21scotuoft (find matches)
Title: Scottish geographical magazine
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Scottish Geographical Society Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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p of the voyage of James v., which•came out and was printed in 1583, has the island nearly in its correctplace, about 40 miles to the north, and it is curious that three map-makers who came after (Mercator, 1595; Speed, 1610; and Jansen,J 659), all copied the 1540-83 map for their coast-line, and that ofOrtelius, 1570, for the position of the Rona island and the internalarrangement of the country. On the Ortelius map the northern coast-line from Cape Wrath toJohn-o-Groats rises gradually from west to east (this is seen as wellon Mercators 1564 hand-drawn map). The Lyndsay-DArfeville1540-83 map and the printed Mercator of 1595 have it almost level, andthere is also added on the 1595 map a long promontory like a crowsbeak on the north-east of Lewis, and these peculiarities were repeateddown to the time of Jansen, 1659. The hand-drawn Mercator of 1564 and the printed Ortelius of 1570 294 SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. read and have to be looked at from the right side, but the Mercator
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Ptolemys Map of Britain as printed in Bordones Atlas. Venice, 1528. from the atlas of 1595 has the printing from left to right in the usualway. The printed Mercators map is a great advance on the hand- THE EVOLUTION OF THE MAP OF SCOTLAND. 295 drawn map, and has improvements taken from the Lyndsay-Arfevillemap of 1540-83. As we have now reached a period when Scotland is fairly well shownon maps, we will turn back to the beginning of map-making, and seehow maps grew in size and improved in appearance, and how the art ofmap-making started in the East and travelling from one country toanother by the Mediterranean, took a strong hold on Italy, Germany,France, Holland, and then on our own country. British Isles, by Strabo, about 20 B.C., p. 290. Strabo was born about 64 B.C. in Asia, near the Black Sea. He wasa student, writer, and traveller, and was living at Corinth in 29 B.C.,ascended the Nile 24 B.C., settled in Rome 14 A.D., and is believed tohave died after 21 a.d. Strabo wrote a gre

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