Map of Scotland -
1690
Nicolaus Visscher, the
Younger (1649-1702) - Exactissima Regni Scotiæ Tabula in
septentrionalem et meridionalem quam in minores earumdem provincias,
insulasque... [Amsterdam, 1690]
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Visscher copied an outline of Scotland which
was first printed in Amsterdam in 1654 in Blaeu's Atlas Novus, and originally drawn by Robert Gordon, a Scot. The
curving north coast, the flat top of the isle of Lewis, the
distortion of the shape of the isle of Skye are distinctive errors
on the Gordon-Blaeu outline. It was not until about 1750 that maps
showed the Great Glen as a straight valley and the correct shape of
Lewis was
known.
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