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2 unusual facts about John Pinkerton


De Situ Britanniae

William Forbes Skene, in his introduction to Celtic Scotland, written after De Situ Britanniae was debunked, disparaged several once-influential histories that relied on it, including Pinkerton's Enquiry, George Chalmers's Caledonia, Roy's Military Antiquities, and Robert Stuart's Caledonia Romana.

John Pinkerton

Pinkerton, along with John Thomson & Co. and John Cary, redefined cartography by exchanging the elaborate cartouches and fantastical beasts used in the 18th century for more accurate detail.



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