Survey of Scotland ; Partnership ; Robert Dundas (1685–1753) ; Robert Dundas (1713–1787) ; Scotland ; Sir William Gordon ; Social network ; Survey ; Topographic map ; United Kingdom ; William Dundas ; William Roy ; map making ; national mapping ; networks
. Roy, et suggère que l’introduction du jeune Roy, un civil, auprès de Watson, ingénieur militaire bien établi, fut facilitée par les Dundas. Le mécénat familial apporté aux levés militaires nous incite à comprendre le projet comme un partenariat public
, Midlothian. It uncovers significant roles played in the organization of David Watson and William Roy's Military Survey of Scotland (1747–1755) by successive generations of the Dundases and suggests that the introduction of Watson, an established military
engineer, to the young civilian Roy, was facilitated by that family. The Dundases' patronage of the Military Survey encourages us to understand the project as a private-public partnership and supports contentions that Enlightenment mapping resulted from