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John Gibson (flourished in London 1750 to his death in 1792) was an English cartographer, geographer, draughtsman and engraver.

Recognized as an important late eighteenth-century British cartographer, a contemporary of Jacques-Nicolas Bellin 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 for which engraved different decorative maps. He also published his own work in The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, The Universal Museum and The Universal Traveller.

References

1. "Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers" revised edition, 2003, Early World Press, Riverside, CT
2. Geographicus, John Gibson Archived 2015-04-16 at the Wayback Machine
3. "National library of Australia, Atlas minimus". Archived from the original on 17 April 2015. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
4. A Correct Map of the Island of Jamaica by John Gibson Archived 2011-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
5. The Gentleman's magazine, Volume 165

External links

• Media related to John Gibson (cartographer) at Wikimedia Commons
• University of Pittsburgh, Atlas Minimus

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