
IOW, Anglesea, Jersey & Guernsey.(Angliae, in qua Insulae) 1616 Petrus Bertius in "Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum Libri septem"
Born in Flanders in 1565 in the town of Beveren but moved around a great deal to overcome religious persecution, latterly he moved to Amsterdam and became professor of mathamatics and a librarian at Leydon University. His cartographer skills were put to good use in the editions of Ptolemy's Geographia (based on Mercator's edition of 1578) .





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