Timothy Pont

Reverend Timothy Pont (c. 1560 – c. 1627) was a Scottish minister, cartographer and topographer. He was the first to produce a detailed map of Scotland. Pont's maps are among the earliest surviving to show a European country in minute detail, from an actual survey.

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