Early Map Indexing

Simple as it may seem when once thought out, the common method of indexing maps by a conventional system of co-ordinates defining the positions of places upon them did not, it seems, suggest itself to geographers until some time after the printing of maps had come into vogue. It may therefore be worth while to put on record an early, possibly the earliest, instance of its adoption - in the mid-sixteenth century - particularly as its author was a man to whose concern with geography little attention has yet been paid

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