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BURGH[T], WILLEBORD van der.


Flemish cartographer.
Brabant (Sylvaducis) used by Blaeu 1634 and later.




Tooley.


Verden, Karl van.


Carl Van Verden (fl. c. 1718 - 1730) was a Dutch seaman in the employ of the Russian Navy during the early 18th century. Van Verden is best known for his important 1719 - 1721 mapping of the Caspian Sea, which was the most sophisticated and accurate that had been issued to date. A significant cartographic achievement, Van Verden's work on the Caspian led directly to Peter the Great's 1722 invasion of Baku and Derbent and Russian hegemony in the region. Despite his achievements in the Caspian, Van Verden was later passed up by the Tzar in favor of Vitus Behring for the commission to discover a Northeast Passage through the Russian Arctic.

Around 1718 the Russian Tzar, Peter the Great, sponsored a number of cartographic expeditions to the farthest reaches of his vast empire. Most of these were headed up by Dutch navigators, the most experienced and mercenary of the era. Carl Van Verden, a Dutch seaman, was commissioned as a Russian naval officer and assigned the task of mapping the Caspian Sea. Though we
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Bland arbeten.
Carte Marine de la Mer Caspiene.


Langenes, Barent.

fl. 1598-1610.
Langenes was a publisher in Middelburg about whom little is known except that he was probably the author of the text and publisher of the first edition of a very well known miniature atlas, the Caert Thresoor. After an uneasy start - some maps were missing from the first edition - the atlas acquired new life in Amsterdam with a re-written text and eventually with re-engraved maps which prolonged its use and popularity for about half a century.



Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.



Green af Rossö - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1890.


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GEDDA, PETTER.

Biografiska uppgifter:1661-97.
Kartograf, från 1687 styrmansdirektör vid amiralitetet, en befattning närmast motsv. såväl generallotsdirektörens som chefens för sjökarteverket i vår tid. G. utarbetade nya författningar rörande lotsväsendet, vilka sedaan länge förblevo gällande, och upprättade och utgav tills. med sin företrädare W. v. Rosenfeldt den första svenska sjöatlasen 1694, 'General hydrographisk chart-book öfwer Östersiön', vilken s.å. även utkom i engelsk och holländsk uppl. Genom detta kartarbete tillvann sig G. en framstående plats inom den svenska kartografiens historia.

Worked at the Survey office, from 1681 in marine measurement and production of maps under Admiral Werner von Rosenfeldt. In 1681 appointed principal at the Admiralty. In 1687 Gedda was appointed director of pilots, taking over von Rosenfeldt's responsibilities for the pilots and hydrographical surveying. They continued collaborating, and in 1695 produced the first printed Swedish marine atlas to provide a correct, albeit very general, view of the Kattegatt, the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia. The marine surveying administration described Gedda's death at only 35 as 'a great loss'.
Bland arbeten:
General hydrographisk chart-book öfwer Östersiön.
(Svensk Uppslagsbok. Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.)

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