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ARROWSMITH , the name of an See also:English See also:family of geographers. The first of them, See also:Aaron Arrowsmith (1750—1823), migrated to See also:London from Winston in See also:Durham when about twenty years of See also:age, and was employed by See also:John See also:Cary, the engraver. In 1790 he made himself famous by his large See also:chart of the See also:world on See also:Mercator's See also:projection. Four years later he published another large See also:map of the world on the globular projection, with a See also:companion See also:volume of explanation. The maps of See also:North See also:America (1796) and See also:Scotland (1807) are the most celebrated of his many later productions. He See also:left two sons, Aaron and See also:Samuel, the See also:elder of whom was the compiler of the See also:Eton See also:Comparative See also:Atlas, of a Biblical atlas, and of various manuals of See also:geography. They carried on the business in See also:company with John Arrowsmith (1790-1873), See also:nephew of the elder Aaron. In 1834 John published his London Atlas, the best set of maps then in existence. He followed up the atlas with a See also:long See also:series of elaborate and carefully executed maps, those of See also:Australia, America, See also:Africa and See also:India being especially valuable. In 1863 he received the See also:gold See also:medal of the Royal See also:Geographical Society, of which See also:body he was one of the founders.
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