English map-making, 1500-1650 : historical essays

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Introduction / Sarah Tyacke -- Meaning and ambiguity in Tudor cartography / J.B. Harley -- The literary image of globes and maps in early modern England / Victor Morgan -- Italian military engineers in Britain in the 1540s / Marcus Merriman -- Three Elizabethan estate surveyors / Peter Eden -- Ralph Treswell's surveys of London houses, c1612 / John Schofield -- Mathematical instrument-making in London in the sixteenth century / G.L'E. Turner -- The cross-staff as a surveying instrument in England, 1500-1640 / John Roche -- Christopher Saxton's surveying / William Ravenhill