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The book commonly known as Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, the fifth volume of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Sive Atlas Novus, is the first known atlas of Scotland and Ireland.[1] It was compiled by Joan Blaeu, and contains 49 engraved maps and 154 pages of descriptive text written in Latin; it was first published in 1654.[1] Most of the maps were made by Timothy Pont, a Scottish cartographer. Those maps, made between 1583 and 1596, were collected, edited, and augmented with other maps (made by Robert Gordon of Straloch and his son James) by John Scot, Lord Scotstarvit, a Scottish laird.

It is the first known atlas of Scotland, and is praised for its quality and its importance; cartobibliographer Jeffrey Stone said in 1972 that for a century after its publication nothing notable happened in the cartography of Scotland. A translated version, including additional documentation, was published in association with the National Library of Scotland in 2006.

  1. ^ a b "Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, 1654". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 8 February 2014.

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Seil

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Atlas of Scotland, 1654 in the digital library of the National Library of Scotland at "Blaeu Atlas of Scotland - Maps - National Library of Scotland"...

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to IX: The Dutch edition of Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior (Grooten Atlas) of 1663-1665 Volumes X, XI and XII: Blaeu's city books of Italy, covering the Papal...

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Crawford Castle

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Scotland". Retrieved 10 October 2021. Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, 1654, p.61. Accounts of the Treasurer of Scotland, 7 (Edinburgh, 1907), pp. 461, 464. "Crawford...

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Pollock Castle

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Caleb George Cash

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Dunskey Castle

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Lake of Menteith

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was more commonly known by the Scottish name, “Loch of Menteith”, although, on the 1654 map, Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, it is identified as “Loch Inche...

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Loch na Dal

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southern shore. Although the meaning of the name is obscure in the current spelling, in the Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, 1654, the loch is listed as "Loch na...

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Grindlay family

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Rutherglen

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Switha

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"Lassody", describing a tower in the Blaeu Atlas of Scotland of 1654. The first known use of the area was as the site of a mill in the 18th century, and then...

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Clan MacCulloch

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Library. p. 483. Blaeu, Joan (1654). Blaeu Atlas of Scotland (in Latin and English). National Library of Scotland: National Library of Scotland. p. 50. McCulloch...

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Seamill

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Aberlour

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on maps in Joan Blaeu's Atlas of Scotland, from 1654. The current village, Charlestown of Aberlour, was "founded by Charles Grant of Elchies in 1812 –...

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