Född 1705, död 1778.
Son till löjtnant Ingevall Vallberg och Margareta Helena Blyberg, samt svåger med företrädaren Embring. Examen 1727. E. ord. 1728 på Öland, och 1729 i Östergötl. Ord. 1742. Kom.-lantmätare. 1760 genom byte med sonen. Kom.-lantmätare i Savolax 1778 genom byte med J. G. Leffler. Afsked med öfverinspektors titel s. å. Ågde Klosterorlunda i Hofs s:n. Gift 1730 med Maria Göthe, f. 1707, d. 1770.
Ekstrand - Svenska landtmätare.
1562-1622.
Plancius was a theologian and minister of the Dutch Reformed Church who fled with many of his compatriots from religious persecution in Flanders to settle in Amsterdam in 1585. There he became interested in navigation and cartography and, being fortunate enough to have access to nautical charts recently brought from Portugal, he was soon recognized as an expert on the shipping routes to India. He was interested, too, in the idea of a North East passage until the failure of Willem Barentsz's third voyage in 1597 seemed to preclude the possibility of such a route. In 1602 he was appointed cartographer to the new Dutch East India Company.
Although Plancius produced no atlases his individual maps and charts, over 100 in all, exercised much influence on the work of other cartographers at the turn of the century. His very large wall map of the world dated 1592 was of particular significance.
Bland arbeten.
Geografia di M. Livio Sanuto distinta in XII libri. Venice: Damiano Zenaro, 1588.
The first printed atlas of Africa. Sannuto’s Geographia was intended as a compendium of world geography, but the project was curtailed by his death. Only the first part, devoted to Africa, was ever published, and that posthumously. Skelton describes the Geographia as a “methodical and precisely documented description of the geography of Africa” and notes the “critical sense” exercised in the compilation of the maps, engraved by Sanuto’s brother Giulio.
It is unfortunate that the work was left incomplete, as Skelton suggests it would have been “among the masterpieces of Renaissance geography”; the fact it was incomplete may help explain its rarity on the market today.
Skelton, Bibliographical note to the facsimile of Livio Sanuto’s Geographia dell Africa.
Sotheby's. Mendelssohn (1957) II, p. 269; Nordenskiöld Collection 2, 277; Skelton, Bibliographical note to the facsimile of Livio Sanuto’s Geographia dell Africa.3 5000-7000
Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
Ängsull, Eriophorum polystachyum - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
