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John Gibson (flourished in London 1750 to his death in 1792) was an 
Recognized as an important late eighteenth-century British cartographer, a contemporary of The Gentleman's magazine, Volume 165
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University of Pittsburgh, Atlas Minimus
18th-century births 1792 deaths 18th-century English cartographers Publishers (people) from London 18th-century English people 18th-century English engravers {{geoscientist-stub
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and engraver.
Recognized as an important late eighteenth-century British cartographer, a contemporary of Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (; 1703 – 21 March 1772) was a French hydrographer, geographer, and member of the French intellectual group called the philosophes.
Bellin was born in Paris. He was hydrographer of France's hydrographic office, membe ...
and skilled engraver, spent most of his life in prison because of several debts, however, produced thousands of maps and its best-known work in 1758 was called the pocket atlas ''Atlas Minimus''. He worked also for the Gentleman's Magazine
''The Gentleman's Magazine'' was a monthly magazine founded in London, England, by Edward Cave in January 1731. It ran uninterrupted for almost 200 years, until 1907, ceasing publication altogether in 1922. It was the first to use the term '' ...
/ref> for which engraved different decorative maps. He also published his own work in ''
The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure
''The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure'' was a periodical published in London in the period 1747–1814 by John Hinton and W. Bent. It advertised itself as dealing with "Letters, Debates, Essays, Tales, Poetry, History, Biography, An ...
'', ''The Universal Museum'' and ''The Universal Traveller''.
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*University of Pittsburgh, Atlas Minimus
18th-century births 1792 deaths 18th-century English cartographers Publishers (people) from London 18th-century English people 18th-century English engravers {{geoscientist-stub