Map of a Nation (87 page)

‘pacification’ of the Highlands
see
Highland reform

painting, and cartography
see
art, and cartography

panopticism,
1

Paris, Treaty of,
1

Paris Exhibition,
1

Paris–Greenwich triangulation,
1
,
2
,
3

Pasley, Charles,
1
,
2
;

Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British Empire
,
1

Paterson, Daniel,
1
,
2
;

New and Accurate Description of the Roads in England and Wales, and Part of the Roads of Scotland
,
1

patriotism,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
10

pedestrianism,
1
,
2
,
3
;

see also
hiking

Pembrokeshire, Ordnance Survey maps of,
1

Penicuik,
1

Penn Beacon,
1

Penygadair,
1

perambulators,
1
,
2
;

see also
waywisers; surveyors’ wheels

perspective, in art,
1

Perth,
1

Peru, French expedition to (1735),
1

Petrie, George,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

Petty, William,
1
,
2
;

‘Down Survey’,
1

Philosophical Transactions
(Royal Society),
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9

Phipps, Henry, 1st Earl of Mulgrave,
1
,
2

Picard, Jean,
1

picturesque,
1

Pilâtre de Rozier, Jean-François,
1

Pilsden Hill,
1

Pink, George,
1

Pitt the Younger, William,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5

place-names
see
toponymy; specific locations are listed by place-name

plane tables,
1

plans
see
maps, surveys

plantation (of Ireland),
1

Playfair, John,
1

Plymouth,
1

Plympton St Maurice,
1

Poor Law Commission,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

Portland,
1

Post Office,
1

Poussin, Nicolas,
1

Preseli Mountains,
1

Prestonpans, Battle of,
1

Price, Richard,
1
,
2

primary levelling of Great Britain,
1
;

see also
levelling

primary triangulation
see
triangulation

Pringle, Sir John,
1

‘prospect’ poetry and painting,
1

see also
landscape

Quiberon Bay,
1

Raglan, Lord,
1

railways, mapping of,
1

rambling,
1
;

see also
pedestrianism

Ramsay, Allan,
1

Ramsden, Jesse: and deal rods,
1
;

and glass rods,
1
;

and dividing engine,
1
;

and lateness,
1
;

and theodolites,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
;

accused of negligence,
1
;

and measurement of Hounslow Heath baseline,
1
;

and zenith sector,
1

Rawthmell’s coffee-house, London,
1

Reagh, Stephen,
1

Reform,
1
,
2
;

see also
Highland reform; Lennox, Charles, 3rd Duke of Richmond

Regiment of Artillery
see
Artillery, Royal Regiment of

Reid, William,
1

relief, cartographical representation of,
1
,
2
,
3

Rennell, James,
1

repeating circle,
1
,
2
,
3

Repton, Humphry,
1

Revolutionary Tribunal,
1

Reynolds, Joshua,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
;

Discourses on Art
,
1

Reynolds, Samuel,
1

Reynolds, Theophila,
1

Reynolds, Thomas Vincent,
1
;

‘Military Map of Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Part of Hampshire’,
1

Rhoades, James,
1

Rhuddlan Marsh,
1

Richmond,
1
rd Duke of
see
Lennox, Charles,
2
rd Duke of Richmond

Ringswold Steeple,
1

road-books,
1

roads, state of in eighteenth century,
1

Rob Roy
see
MacGregor, Robert (Rob Roy)

Robertson, Duncan,
1

Robertson, William,
1

Robespierre, Maximilien,
1

Robinson, Thomas Romney,
1
,
2

Rochefort,
1

Rodriguez, Don Joseph,
1
,
2
,
3

Romanticism,
1
,
2

Rombalds Moor,
1

Romney Marsh,
1
,
2
,
3

Rook’s Hill,
1

Rosa, Salvator,
1

Roscommon,
1

Rosdew, Richard,
1
,
2
,
3

route surveying,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
;

see also
traverse surveying

Roy, James,
1

Roy, John,
1
,
2

Roy, William: birth and early life,
1
,
2
;

and Watson,
1
,
2
,
3
;

and Military Survey of Scotland,
1
,
2
,
3
;

study of antiquities,
1
;

survey of England’s south coast,
1
;

and Seven Years War,
1
;

map of Minden,
1
;

anecdote of  Warley Common,
1
;

as Surveyor-General of Coasts,
1
;

at Dunkirk,
1
;

proposes military map of whole country,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
;

house in Argyll Street, London,
1
;

and Royal Society,
1
;

barometric observations,
1
;

and Schiehallion,
1
;

and Greenwich–Paris triangulation,
1
,
2
;

criticisms of Ramsden,
1
;

illness and death,
1

Roy, William: publications and principal texts: ‘An Account of the Measurement of a Base on Hounslow-Heath’,
1
,
2
,
3
;

‘An Account of the Mode Proposed to … Determin[e] the Relative Situation of … Greenwich and Paris’,
1
,
2
;

‘An Account of the Trigonometrical Operation … between … Greenwich and Paris’,
1
,
2
,
3
;

‘Considerations on the Propriety of making a General Military Map of England’,
1
;

‘Experiments and Observations … with the Barometer’,
1
;

Mappa Britanniae Septentrionalis
,
1
,
2
;

Military Antiquities of the Romans in North Britain
,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
;

‘Military Description of the South-East of England’,
1
;

‘Plan Shewing the Situation of the Base Measured on Hounslow Heath in Summer 1784’,
1

Royal Academy,
1

Royal Geographical Society,
1

Royal Irish Academy,
1
,
2
,
3

Royal Military Academy, Woolwich,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9

Royal Philosophers’ Club,
1
,
2

Royal Regiment of Artillery
see
Artillery, Royal Regiment of

Royal School of Artillery,
1

Royal Society,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
10

Royal Society Club,
1
,
2

Russell, John,
1