Christopher Saxton was a surveyor by profession. His major achievement was a survey of English and Welsh counties which he began in 1574 and completed by 1579.

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Though the political and intellectual history of mapmaking in the eighteenth century is well established, the details of its commercial revolution have until no

These diverse essays investigate political factors behind the rapid development of cartography in Renaissance Europe and its impact on emerging European nations