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Celebi, Kâtip.

Kâtip Çelebi, Mustafa bin Abdullah, Haji Khalifa or Kalfa, (1609, Istanbul – 1657 Istanbul)
Kâtip Celebi was an Ottoman scholar. A historian and geographer, he is regarded as one of the most productive authors of non-religious scientific literature in the 17th century Ottoman Empire. Among his best-known works is the Kashf al-?un?n ‘an as?m? al-kutub wa-al-fun?n, ('The Removal of Doubt from the Names of Books and the Arts'), a bibliographic encyclopaedia, written in Arabic, which lists more than 14,500 books in alphabetic order.
Life and works
The son of a soldier, he himself was a soldier for ten years until a heritage made him turn to a more contemplative life. As the accountant of the commissariat department of the Ottoman Army in Anatolia, he accompanied the Ottoman army in the campaign against Baghdad in 1625, was present at the siege of Erzurum, and returned to Istanbul in 1628. In the following year he was again in Baghdad and Hamadan, and in 1633-34 at Aleppo, whence he made the pilgrimage to Mecca (hence his title Hajji). The following year he was in Erivan and then returned to Consta
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Bland arbeten.
Cihannüma (The mirror of the world) Constantinople, Ibrahim Müteferrika, 1732. First edition.
This is the second work by Kâtip Celebi published in 1729. The author was a well known writer on history and geography and a bibliophile and in this work intended to publish a universal system of geography. In fact only part of the work (including the description of Asia Minor) was completed by Kâtip who used European and Arabic and Persian sources, and the whole was supplemented and edited by Ibrahim, who dedicated it to the grand vizir of Sultan Mahmud II, Ali Pasha.

The picture is showing the map of the Indian Ocean and the China Sea that was engraved in 1728 by the Hungarian-born Ottoman cartographer and publisher Ibrahim Müteferrika; it is one of a series that illustrated Katip Çelebi’s Cihannuma (Universal Geography), the first printed book of maps and drawings to appear in the Islamic world.


BUHRMAN, GERHARD von.

1653-1701.
Officer, kartograf. B. var 1672-74 i utländsk krigstjänst, deltog i hela skånska kriget som fortifikationsofficer, tjänstgjorde sedan som generalkvartermästarlöjtnant i Skåne och inlade stor förtjänst om befästandet av Malmö, bevistade med statsstipendium fälttågen i Flandern 1693-94, överstelöjtnant 1695. B. var en av 1600-talets skickligaste svenska kartografer med en teknik som kartografien i allmänhet kom att uppnå först under 1700-talet.
Under skånska kriget hade B. goda tillfällen att lära känna Skånes topografi och ännu bättre under året 1680, då han drog omkring och avritade ett 50-tal skånska herrgårdar (utgivna av A. Fischer 1756). (En andra upplaga kom 1856 när Buhrmans bilder gavs ut i andra upplagan av Svecia Antiqua et Hodierna, VÖBAM's anm.). På våren 1681 fick B. i uppdrag att kartlägga Jämtland och Värmland, på hösten samma år att kartlägga Skåne. Skånekartan blev färdig 1684, en annan 1687 (original i Krigsarkivet). Den utgör den första tillförlitliga kartan över provinsen och användes a
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Bland arbeten.
Eric Dahlbergs Suecia antiqua & hodierna. Supplement,
Prospecter af åtskillige märkvärdige byggnader, säterier och herre-gårdar uti Skåne
/ ... och blifvit år 1680 aftagne, ritade och samlade af ingenieur-capitain Burman
; men nu till det allmännas tjenst, förnyade och ... på trycket utgifne år 1756 af
Abraham Fischer


Sv. Uppslag.bok 2:a uppl., band 5 1947, sp.271-72. Litt. H. Richter, "Skånes karta från mitten av 1500-talet till omkr. 1700".


HENNEBERGER [HENNEBERGEN], KASPAR [GASPAR] of ELRICH.

1529-1600.
German cartographer.
Livonia 1555 (lost) reissued Blaeu 1613,
Prussia, Ortelius 1576, used later by Hondius & Blaeu.


Bland arbeten.
Livonia 1555 (lost).
Prussia, Ortelius 1576.


Tooley



Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734



'Profil öfwer Osmundsberg, des Skiffer och kalckstens hwarf...' - 1739.


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L'ENFANT, PIERRE CHARLES.

Biografiska uppgifter:1754-1825.
L'Enfant was born in Paris where he trained to be an architect. He came to America in 1777, and served George Washington as an engineer during the Revolutionary War. In 1791 President Washington asked L'Enfant to design the new capitol city in the District of Columbia. L'Enfant designed a city similar in layout to the then French capitol city of Versailles. The Capitol in Washington sits in a position similar to that of the palace in Versailles, the White House (originally called the President's House) in the position of Grand Trianon, and the Mall is like the Parc. The Commissioners of the City of Washington wanted to have a printed copy of the plan when they began to sell building lots. L'Enfant irritated them by working slowly and releasing only sketchy plans . On instruction from President Washington, Thomas Jefferson on February 27, 1792 wrote a letter to L'Enfant dismissing him as city planner. L'Enfant died penniless and was buried on a friend's estate. In 1909 his remains were moved to Arlington National Cemetery on a hill overlooking the capitol city.



(Washington Map Society. Se även wikipedias artikel, 'Pierre Charles L'Enfant'. )

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