John Gibson (cartographer)
John Gibson (flourished in London 1750 to his death in 1792) was an English cartographer, geographer, draughtsman and engraver.[1]
Recognized as an important late eighteenth-century British cartographer, a contemporary of Jacques-Nicolas Bellin and skilled engraver,[2] spent most of his life in prison because of several debts, however, produced thousands of maps and its best-known work in 1758 was called the pocket atlas Atlas Minimus.[3][4] He worked also for the Gentleman's Magazine[5] for which engraved different decorative maps. He also published his own work in The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, The Universal Museum and The Universal Traveller.
References
[edit]- ^ "Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers" revised edition, 2003, Early World Press, Riverside, CT
- ^ Geographicus, John Gibson Archived 2015-04-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ National library of Australia, Atlas minimus
- ^ A Correct Map of the Island of Jamaica by John Gibson Archived 2011-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Gentleman's magazine, Volume 165
External links
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Media related to John Gibson (cartographer) at Wikimedia Commons- University of Pittsburgh, Atlas Minimus
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