Maps, their history, characteristics and uses; a handbook for teachers (1921)
Fordham, Herbert George, Sir, 1854-1929 · Cambridge : The University press · leaf 62
map already mentionedof a part of the Auvergne, in France, drawn by a Florentine,Gabriel Symeone, and published in 1560 (Plate VII). It isa small, circular map, with the west at the top. At the foot,on an eminence, in the foreground, so to speak, is depictedan engineer, or cartographer, with his… … Section from Map of the Auvergne. Gabriel Symeone. Lyons, 1560. PANORAMAS AND THEIR RELATION TO MAPS 35 the plain and course of the River AHier and its tributaries.This method of representation of surface was soon disused,but it is revived in the latter part of the seventeenth centuryin the plans…
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