R A Skelton
Biographic Data
| ID | 200006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R A Skelton |
| GIVEN NAMES | R A |
| FAMILY NAME | Skelton |
| SIGNATURE | SKELTON R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | a London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1947 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Saxton's Survey of England and Wales
The Discovery of North America
Maps
Records of Europe's Discovery of North America
County Atlases of the British Isles, 1579-1703
Magellan's Voyage. A Narrative Account of the First Circumnavigation by Antonio Pigafetta
The military surveyor's contribution to British cartography in the 16th century
Magellan, First World Navigator
Claudius Ptolemaeus-Geographia (Venice, 1511)
Magellan's Voyage
The earliest English chart with soundings
Medieval English maps and plans
A contract for world maps at Barcelona, 1399–1400
In the summer of 1399 Baldassare degli Ubriachi, an ivoryand jewel-merchant of Florence, set out on a journey to Aragon, Bordeaux, England and Ireland carrying pearls and jewels for sale. From the Kings of Aragon and Navarre he obtained, and from the King of England he hoped for, rights of free passage through their territories. On his outward journey he formed the intention of presenting maps as gifts to one or more of these monarchs, and while …
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832-1901)
History of the Ordnance Survey
Acta Cartographica
Goa e as Praças do Norte
Historical notes on Imago Mundi
Civitates Orbis Terrarum 1572-1618
The Vinland Map Cartographically Considered
The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation
Journal Article The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation. By R. A. Skelton, Thomas E. Marston, and George D. Painter. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965. xii + 291 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, indices. $15.00.) Get access Norman J. G. Pounds Norman J. G. Pounds Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 53, Issue 1, June 1966, Pages 107–108, …
The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation
Looking at an Early Map
The Vinland Map
The January issue of the Journal (pp. 124–5) contained a summary of Professor E. G. R. Taylor's views on the Vinland Map. To the courtesy of the Editor I owe the opportunity both to read this note in proof and to comment on it in the present issue. I have not seen Professor Taylor's complete study nor her drawings. She expressed some of her misgivings to me in correspondence after (in 1962) seeing a photocopy of the map and reading in typescript …
Theatrum orbis terrarum
The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation
The Vinland Map, dated to about A.D. 1440-at least fifty years before Columbus landed in the Americas-is a unique map of the world that shows an outline of the northeast American coast and a legend describing its discovery in about 1000 by Leif Eiriksson, the Norseman from Greenland. The map was published by Yale University Press in 1965 and generated an enormous amount of debate. Chemical analysis of the ink later suggested the map might be a fo…
The Discovery of North America
Civitates Orbis Terrarum 1572-1618
History of Cartography
The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation
Journal Article The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation. By R. A. Skelton, Thomas E. Marston, and George D. Painter. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965. xii + 291 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, indices. $15.00.) Get access Norman J. G. Pounds Norman J. G. Pounds Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 53, Issue 1, June 1966, Pages 107–108, …
Looking at an Early Map
County Atlases of the British Isles, 1579-1703
Philippine Cartography (1320-1899)
Carta Marina
Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th Centuries
Explorers Maps
Tudor Town Plans in John Speed’s Theatre
Saxton's Survey of England and Wales
Landmarks in British Cartography
A contract for world maps at Barcelona, 1399–1400
In the summer of 1399 Baldassare degli Ubriachi, an ivoryand jewel-merchant of Florence, set out on a journey to Aragon, Bordeaux, England and Ireland carrying pearls and jewels for sale. From the Kings of Aragon and Navarre he obtained, and from the King of England he hoped for, rights of free passage through their territories. On his outward journey he formed the intention of presenting maps as gifts to one or more of these monarchs, and while …
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832-1901)
The Vinland Map Cartographically Considered
Tudor Map Engravers
The earliest English chart with soundings
The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation
The Vinland Map
The January issue of the Journal (pp. 124–5) contained a summary of Professor E. G. R. Taylor's views on the Vinland Map. To the courtesy of the Editor I owe the opportunity both to read this note in proof and to comment on it in the present issue. I have not seen Professor Taylor's complete study nor her drawings. She expressed some of her misgivings to me in correspondence after (in 1962) seeing a photocopy of the map and reading in typescript …
A Medieval Map of Britain
Some Medieval Theories about the Nile
Richard Hakluyt
International geographical congress, Lisbon, 1949
Some Medieval Theories about the Nile
Bishop Leslie's maps of Scotland, 1578
Tudor Town Plans in John Speed’s Theatre
Watermarks and the Study of Early Maps
Tudor Map Engravers
Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th Centuries
Medieval Land Surveying and Topographical Maps
The royal map collections of England
Stuart Map Engraving
The Voyage of the Endeavour
The Ordnance Survey and the Public
Explorers Maps
Captain Cook and Hawaii
A Medieval Map of Britain
The Southeast in Early Maps. With an Annotated Check List of Printed and Manuscript Regional and Local Maps of Southeastern North America during the Colonial Period
Professor Cumming has produced a work of scholarly exactitude, diligence, and detachment, for which the historical profession must stand in his debt. It comprises a List of Maps of the Southeast During the Colonial Period, a thoroughly documented bibliographical listing of 450 regional maps of southeastern United States, and of local maps south of Virginia and north of the Florida peninsula; an introductory essay: Early Historical Cartography of …
History in a Map
The Map Room, British Museum
The Ordnance Survey and Archaeology, 1791-1960
Der stille Ozean. Entdeckung und Erschliessung
Philippine Cartography (1320-1899)
Landmarks in British Cartography
Landmarks in British Cartography
An Eminent Geography Teacher
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