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PENNANT, THOMAS.

June 14, 1726 - December 16, 1798.
Was a Welsh naturalist and antiquary.
The Pennants were a Welsh gentry family from the parish of Whitford, Flintshire, who had built up a modest estate at Bychton by the seventeenth century. In 1724 Thomas' father, David Pennant, also inherited the neighbouring Downing estate from a cousin, considerably augmenting the family's fortune. Downing Hall, where Thomas was born in the 'yellow room', became the main Pennant residence.
Pennant received his early education at Wrexham grammar school, before moving to Thomas Croft's school in Fulham in 1740. In 1744 entered Queen's College, Oxford, later moving to Oriel College. Like many students from a wealthy background, he left Oxford without taking a degree, although in 1771 his work as a zoologist was recognised with an honorary degree.
At the age of twelve, Pennant later recalled, he had been inspired with a passion for natural history through being presented with Francis Willughby's Ornithology. A tour in Cornwall in 1746-1747, where he met the antiquary...

HOLM, THOMAS CAMPANIUS.

Född o. 1670 i Stockholm (trol. i Klara), död 1702 30/7 i samma stad (Jakob).
Kopparstickare och topograf. Son av gulddragareåldermannen Johan H. och Anna Thomasdotter Östgöte. Broder till lagmannen och kopparstickaren Johan H., adl. Stenholm. Student vid Uppsala universitet 1686. Ritare vid Antikvitetsarkivet från 1693.

Thomas Campanius Holm, död 1702, var en svensk boktryckare och kopparstickare. Holm blev student i Uppsala 1686, och framdrog en av farfadern, Johannes Campanius utarbetad indiankatekes, vilken han utgav 1696, och sammanställde ur farfaderns papper och andra källor Kort beskrifning om provincien Nya Swerige uti America (1702).
Bland arbeten.
M. LUTHER, Catechismus, Sthlm 1696; karta över Nya Sverige, efter P. Lindeström.
T. C. HOLM, Kort beskrifning om provincien Nya Swerige uti America, Sthlm 1702: försättsblad, svenskarna underhandla med indianerna, kpst., 2 landskap med figurer jämte 3 kartor, över Nord- och Sydamerika, Virginien samt Nya Sverige.


Hultmark, 1944. Svensk Uppslagsbok 1932.

SEULENBURG, HEINRICH von.


Tjänstgjorde i svenska fortifikationskåren. '.. var av balttysk härstamning och sedan 1632 stadsingeniör i Riga'.


Kart & Bildteknik 2003:3, artikel "Från Nyen till Hiddensee. Svensk kartläggning under 1600-talet". Av Ulla Ehrensvärd.


Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.


'Svea Rikes Hufwudstad, Stockholm...'. - Rosenfelt 1702.

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ARROWSMITH, AARON.

Biografiska uppgifter: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 Aaron's previous one. In 1834 John published his London Atlas, the best set of maps then in existence. He followed up the atlas with a long series of elaborate and carefully executed maps, those of Australia, America, Africa and India being especially valuable. In 1863 he received the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society, of which body he was one of the founders.
His maps were very numerous, and the neatness and finished style of their execution gained for them a very extensive reputation, which, however, on closer examination, they have not permanently sustained. Arrowsmith was a most industrious collector of materials, but he was not equally judicious in using them ; and though, in various respects, useful and meritorious, his maps contain many great and important errors.
Mount Arrowsmith, situated east of Port Alberni on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, is named for Aaron Arrowsmith and his nephew John Arrowsmith.
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)

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