from gordon to google: four centuries of mapping aberdeen
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Talk by Chris Fleet, at the British Science Festival, 5 September 2012 in the session "Mapping Scotland"TRANSCRIPT
Four centuries of mapping Aberdeen: from Gordon to Google
Chris Fleet, Senior Map Curator, National Library of Scotland
“Gough map”, ca. 1360
Forlani, ca. 1561
Gordon, 1661
Gordon, 1661
Gordon, 1661
Slezer, 1693
Roy, 1747-52
Board of Ordnance,
1746
Paterson, 1746
Milne, 1789
Harding, 1804
Smith, 1810
Smith, 1810
Telford, 1828
Wood, 1828
Wood, 1828
Ordnance Survey, 1867
Ordnance Survey, 1867
Ordnance Survey, 1866-7
Ordnance Survey, 1866-7
Ordnance Survey, 1866-7
Beattie & Son, 1878
Gibb, 1888
Ordnance Survey, 1899
Bartholomew, 1912
Aberdeen & District Joint Town Planning Scheme, 1933
Bartholomew, 1934
Ordnance Survey, 1944
Ordnance Survey, 1944
Google, 2012