Aaron Arrowsmith

Aaron Arrowsmith (* July 14, 1750 in Winston, County Durham, United Kingdom, † April 23, 1823 in London, United Kingdom ) was an English cartographer, engraver and publisher and founder of the Geografenfamilie Arrowsmith.

Life and work

Aaron Arrowsmith was the son of a farmer and should initially take the same profession, but devoted himself mathematics and geography. In 1770 he came at the age of 20 years to Soho Square, London, and was employee of John Cary, engraver, and William Faden. For the publishing house " Cary's Traveller's Companion ", he led several investigations by, which were published in 1790 and founded the same year his own business in Long Acre. At about 1810, he was Hydro Count the Prince of Wales and in 1820 a royal cartographer.

In January 1790, he presented his famous large map of the world in Mercator projection. Four years later he published another large world map in Globular projection, along with a companion volume with explanations. The maps of North America (1796 ) and Scotland (1807 ) are the best known of his many later works. His numerous maps are excellent in artistic terms, but only the of Great Britain to earn the praise of scientific accuracy.

Aaron Arrowsmith died on 23 April 1823 at the age of 72 years, in London.

Family

He left two sons, Samuel and Aaron, the elder of them was the compiler of the " Eton Comparative Atlas ," a biblical atlases, and various manuals of geography.

His nephew John Arrowsmith (1790-1873), has also acquired a name as a cartographer, including through the " London Atlas of universal geography" (1832-1837) as well as by school maps and maps of that time travel works. He continued the business and in 1821 published a complete map of North America, a combination of maps of the Hudson 's Bay Company and Aaron's previous cards. He continued to work on an atlas with every detail worked out and carefully examined maps of Australia, New Zealand, America, Africa and India, the latter of which were particularly valuable. In 1863 he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, the third oldest geographical society of the earth, of which John Arrowsmith was one of the founders.

He drew numerous maps, which gained an extraordinary reputation for its neat and clean design, which they, however, on closer inspection the long run not been justified. Arrowsmith was a very avid collector of data material, but he was not very reasonable in dealing with them. His maps were very useful and commendable, but these contained many large and serious errors.

Overall, the Arrowsmith's published over seven hundred cards and thus became one of the dominant London Maps publishers to about 1860.

Honors

Mount Arrowsmith, east of Port Alberni on Vancouver Iceland, British Columbia, Canada, is named after Aaron Arrowsmith and his nephew John Arrowsmith.

Issued Cards

  • World map in Mercator projection, presents all the new discoveries at the present time with the traces of the most important mariners since 1700, carefully from the best tables, maps, travel & Co created in 1790 (8 pages)
  • A map showing all the new discoveries in the interior of North America, January 1, 1795 ( other editions 1801, 1802, 1804 and 1816 also show roads)
  • Cartography of the South Pacific, 1798
  • A New Map of Africa, 1802
  • Of maps of the West Indies and the Spanish dominions in North America, 1803 ( 4 pages)
  • A New Map of Mexico and adjacent provinces compiled from original documents., 1810 (4 pages)
  • Map of countries around the North Pole, 1818
  • Ogden map (North America), 1821 ( 2nd edition: 1834)
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