John Speed (1542-1629), English cartographer and historian, 1816. Artist: Unknown
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John Speed (1542-1629), English cartographer and historian, 1816. Speed is probably the most famous of British mapmakers. In 1612 he published The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain, an atlas containing 67 maps of English and Welsh counties, and in 1627 he became the first English cartographer to produce a world atlas.
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- John Speed: British; English: Illustrator, artist, mapmaker, tailor, historian, cartographer
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