Talk:Blaeu Atlas of Scotland
Latest comment: 2 years ago by Piledhigheranddeeper in topic Prime meridian
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Did you know nomination
edit- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 10:02, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
Scotland, Orkney, Shetland, Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, 1654
- ... that mountaineer and geographer Caleb George Cash was instrumental in preserving essential documents pertaining to Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, the first known atlas of Scotland? Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1150639
Created by Drmies (talk) and Uncle G (talk). Nominated by Drmies (talk) at 00:26, 10 April 2022 (UTC).
- Note: the Blaeu Atlas article is an expansion. Drmies (talk) 00:35, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
- Putting a mark in the sand - I'd like to review this one, will get onto it later today. Girth Summit (blether) 12:33, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
Both of these articles are long enough, new enough/expanded recently enough, free of copyvio as far as I can detect, they're well-written and well-sourced. Hookiness of hook? Well, what is interesting is very subjective, but it hooked me immediately (as can be seem from my eagerness to review them). QPQ is done, and image licensing looks fine. Good to go. Girth Summit (blether) 17:53, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
Prime meridian
editThe one map reproduced in this article includes a meridional scale, but its origin, while clearly not at Greenwich, is not specified. Were all the maps in the atlas based off the same prime meridian, or did it vary? And where was this prime meridian? Fierro? Someplace else? --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 17:16, 19 May 2022 (UTC)