Janssonius’ Map of Dorset Mapmaker(s)_John Cary and the early days of

and the early days of modern road building

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and his Genealogies of Scripture

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The Grant of the Manor of Old Court

Janssonius’ Map of Dorset Mapmaker(s)_John Cary and the early days ofComitatus Dorcestria vulgo Anglice Dorsetshire Joannes Janssonius II (1588 1664) married into the Hondius family and, with Henricus Hondius, worked on a revised edition of the Mercator Hondius atlas (which was known as the Atlas Novus from 1638 onwards). The Hondius Janssonius map publishing business traced its roots back to Gerardus Mercator. Mercator coined the term 'atlas' (after the wise, mythical, Mauritanian king rather than the weary titan) and