1763-?.
Fought at the Battle of Svensksund in 1790. In 1793 oversaw the construction ofa new lighthouse at Falsterbo. 1805-11 shipyard commander in Malmö. Appointed the Navy's Major Mecanicus' in 1809. Was involved in the building of new docks in Malmö, Ystad and Helsingborg.
Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.
1565-1629.
Petrus Bertius grew up in Beveren in Flanders and as a young man travelled widely in Europe. In company with so many of his compatriots he moved to Amsterdam as a refugee from religious persecution and after completing his studies there he was appointed a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his editions of Ptolemy's Geographia (based on Mercator's edition of 1578) and for the miniature atlases detailed below. In 1618 he moved to Paris and became Official Cosmographer to Louis XIII. He was related by marriage to Jodocus Hondius and Pieter van den Keere.
PTOLEMAIOS, CLAUDIUS (Ptolemaeus / Ptolemy).
Ca. 150 e. Kr.
Den äldre tidens mest berömda astronom, geograf och matematiker. Hans astronomiska teorier var ledande under 14 århundraden, och hans främsta verk, 'Syntaxis' eller 'Almagest', avlöstes inte förrän Newtons banbrytande forskning. Hans 'Geographia' dominerade hela den kristna och muhammedanska världen under 1500 år. Det var Ptolemaeus som införde begreppen längd- och breddgrader, det system som geografin sedan dess följt i alla tider. Efter uppfinningen av boktryckerikonsten kom hans främsta geografiska verk helt eller delvis ut i en rad utgåvor, som oftast kompletterades med senare forskningsresultat och nyare kartritningar. Till år 1700 hade 45 utgåvor på många olika språk utgivits. Sedan dess har ytterligare 7 utgåvor tillkommit, den senaste år 1883.
The 1482 edition of the Cosmographia, printed in Ulm, is one of the finest and most ambitious productions of the fifteenth century and the first printed atlas to include a corpus of “modern maps” as revised and supplemented by the important renaissance c...
Bland arbeten.
World. Untitled map of the world. Ulm: Leinhart Holle, 1482 or later. Prepared by Donnus Nicolas Germanus and cut by Johannes “Schnitzer”.
This world map is from the first edition of Ptolemy to be printed north of the Alps, and the first to use woodcut maps. It is the earliest surviving printed map signed by its engraver, and the first in the Ptolemaic sequence to include Scandinavia and to allude to lands beyond the confines of Ptolemy’s world view.
Salmonsen.- Tooley.
Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.
Lidingön. - H. Hellberg, A. E. Påhlman 1925.
