John Thomson (c. 1777 – ) was a Scottish cartographer from Edinburgh, celebrated for his 1817 New General Atlas, published by himself in Edinburgh, John Cumming in Dublin, and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy in London.

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Publications The Cabinet Atlas The Classical and Historical Atlas The New General Atlas, 1817 The Traveller's Guide through Scotland and its Islands, 1829 The Edinburgh School Classical Atlas, 1831 Atlas of Scotland, 1832

External links Maps by John Thomson in Wikimedia Commons John Thomson's Atlas of Scotland, 1832

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