Sir William Petty (1623-1687) — cartographer of the Down Survey and creator of Hiberniae Delineatio (1685)
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Sir William Petty
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Contemporary portrait (Wikimedia Commons)
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Public domain portrait of the 17th-century English political economist.
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Sir William Petty (1623-1687), the English political economist and cartographer who conducted the Down Survey of Ireland (1655-1658) — the first accurate national land survey in Europe — and published the Hiberniae Delineatio atlas in 1685, the source of the 'A General Mapp of Ireland' that anchors the visual era of Brant Hindman's Irish ancestor pages.
Background on Sir William Petty's Hiberniae Delineatio atlas (1685), the first printed atlas of Ireland and the contemporary cartographic anchor for Brant Hindman's Irish ancestor generations (Hugh O'Neil 1605-1660 Omagh; John Ewing 1648-1745 Donegal; Sir William Ewing II Baron Coleraine 1684).
