1750-1823.
He was an English geographer (mapmaker) and member of the Arrowsmith family of geographers. He moved to Soho Square, London from Winston, County Durham when about twenty years of age, and was employed by John Gary, the engraver and led for some years the office of hydrographer to the king. In January 1790 he made himself famous by his large chart of the world on Mercator projection. Four years later he published another large map of the world on the globular projection, with a companion volume of explanation. The maps of North America (1796) and Scotland (1807) are the most celebrated of his many later productions. He left two sons, Aaron and Samuel, the elder of whom was the compiler of the Eton Comparative Atlas, of a Biblical atlas, and of various manuals of geography.
The business was thus carried on in company with John Arrowsmith (1790-1873), nephew of the elder Aaron. In 1821, they published a more complete North American map from a combination of a maps obtained from the Hudson Bay Company and Aaro...
Bland arbeten.
First map of North America, 1790
A Map Exhibiting All the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America, January 1, 1795 (Other editions 1801, 1802, 1804 and 1816 featuring roads)
Chart of the South Pacific, 1798
A New Map of Africa, 1802
Map of Countries Round the North Pole, 1818
Ogden map (North America), 1821 (2nd edition : 1834)
American engraver with Delleker.
James H. Young har också graverat en världskarta 'The World on a Globular Projection...' av D. H. Vance som kom ut i Philadelphia c:a 1830. Kartan är känd i bara två exemplar, ett finns hos Cornell University i staten New York och ett fanns hos VÖBAM i Stockholm, numera hos Library of Congress.
Bland arbeten.
Varle's United States, 1817.
Finley's North America, 1826.
Indiana 1834, Carolinas 1835, Virginia, 1837.
Mitchell's National Map of American Republic, 1846.
Kentucky, 1850.
The World on a Globular Projection...
Tooley. RdeT.
1804-1837.
Storskifteslantmätare, verksam i Dalarna.
Bland arbeten.
Charta öfver Aspeboda socken uti Stora Kopparbergs län [Kartografiskt material] / afmätt åren 1806, 1807 & 1808 af dertill förordnade landtm:re ; transporterad och copierad år 1831 af A.G. Théel
Charta öfver Thorsångs socken i Stora Kopparbergs län [Kartografiskt material] / ifrån en af landtm. C.P. Nyrén uppgord charta transporterad... af A.G. Théel
Jerna socken uti Stora Kopparbergs län och Wäster Dahlarne [Kartografiskt material] / ifrån storskifteskartan transporterad af A.G. Théel
Leksands socken uti Nedan Siljans fögderi af Stora Kopparbergs län [Kartografiskt material] / ifrån storskiftes mätningarne transporterad af A.G. T[hée]l
Äppelbo socken uti Stora Kopparbergs län och Wäster Dahlarne [Kartografiskt material] / ifrån storskiftes chartan transporterad... af A.G. Théel
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
Ducatus Uplandia.
