Thomas Cox: Britain 1731

A continuing series of posts to highlight my small antique map collection. All scans are taken directlly from an original copy, not a reproduction.

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Map of Britain by Thomas Cox from his “Magna Britannia” published 1731. Thomas Wright wrote the following in 1836:

Thomas Cox, M.A., a man of some celebrity, and learned, was vicar of Bromfield church, from February, 1685, to January, 1734; he translated Dupin’s Life of  Christ and his Apostles, from the French, and that author’s abridgement of his Ecclesiastical History, in four volumes. From the Latin, he translated Pancirollus of Things Lost, two volumes. From the Greek, Plutarch’s Morals. He also compiled a great part of a complete History of England; and six quarto volumes of the Magna Britannia.

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Watch out for the next map in this series..

Dave

Mathematician at the University of Warwick in the UK with research interests in equivariant bifurcation theory and applications, especially in modelling of insect locomotion. Teaching interests include online learning and innovative teaching methods. Also in a past life has been involved in summer school courses, and online material, for Gifted and Talented. He has been active on the Internet since 1995, initially though his UFO and Michael Schenker website, but now through a multitude of projects.

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