Född 1711 13/11 i Helgesta sn (Söd.), död 1781 3/12 i Stockholm. (Jakob).
Kopparstickare. Son av komministern Johannes B. och Christina Bergander. Elev av sin kusin Erik Geringius i Uppsala. Gravör vid Vetenskapsakademien 1739 6/6-1778 30/7. Var 1743-55 bosatt å Plongsta i Vansö sn (Söd.), återvände sistn. år till Stockholm. Kom 1757 genom gifte i besittning av gården Husby i ovann. sn.
Bland arbeten.
P. TILLAEUS, Karta över Stockholm, efter P. Wallrave, 1733, utförd i samarbete med Erik Geringius.
N. STRÖMCRONA. General- och åtskillige speciale passkartor öfver hela Östersjön och Sinu Finnico och Bothnico samt Skagerak, Kattegat och Bält, 1739, 10 blad.
P. EKERMAN, De Norcopia, diss., resp. P. W. Lithzénius, Uppsala 1742: plan av Norrköping 1741, kpst., samt tab. med sigill och mynt, efter Ph. J. Thelott, kpst.
C. von LINNÉ, öländsk resa, Sthlm 1745: karta över Öland.
G. WALLIN d. y., Gothländska samlingar, I, Sthlm 1747: grundritning av Roma kloster, kpst., samt 3 tab. med sigill, kpst.
C. von LINNEI Skånska resa, Sthlm 1751: karta över Skåne samt zoologiska tab., kpst.
O. GRAU, Beskrifning öfwer Wästmanland, Västerås 1754: ett flertal kyrkor, Västerås domkyrka, Arboga m. fl., kpst.
[A. F. BÜSCHING], Geographisk beskrifning öfwer Palästina eller juda-landet, samt Steniga Arabien, Sthlm 1770: karta över Palestina, 1770.
N. MARELIUS, Karta över Östergötland och Linköpings hövdingedöme, 1771.
DENS., Karta över sjön Vänern, 1773, utförd i samarbete med Fredrik Akrel.
Karta över Älvsborgs och Vänersborgs hövdingedöme, 1781.
Hultmark, 1944.
Middleton, previously a captain in the employ of The Hudson Bay Company, was financed by Arthur Dobbs to explore the north-western extremities of Hudson Bay in search of a north-western passage. The expedition, from 1741-42, should have disproved notions of such a passage, but the increasingly delusional Dobbs convinced himself that Middleton had deliberately falsified his findings, and mounted an attack on the captain’s integrity, using a series of rather dubious maps distorted to support his viewpoint.
Middleton’s chart over Hudson Bay, published before the eruption of the controversy, is of great importance as the attempt at an accurate survey of the west coast of Hudson Bay (Cumming et al, Exploration of North America, p. 188), and the only reliable printed cartographic record of the captain’s discoveries. Surprisingly, the chart was not included in Middleton’s book defending his reputation, and is now rare.
Bland arbeten.
Hudson Bay.
Sotheby's
Knight Leontiy Vassilievich Spafaryev (1765 - 30 January 1847) was a Lieutenant General of the Imperial Russian Navy. Spafaryev was Director of the Lighthouse Administration and cartographer of the Russian Admiralty.
Spafariev was an important contributor to the improvement of navigation along the Russian coasts. The first lighthouses in Russia were built during tsar Peter the Great's drive for reform and modernization at the beginning of the 18th century. However, it was only until the Administration of Lighthouses was created in 1807 that the Russian lighthouse system followed an organized pattern, becoming effective and efficient. This office was established by the Russian Navy and it began under the leadership of Leontiy V. Spafaryev.
As a cartographer, perhaps his most outstanding work is the 'Atlas of the Gulf of Finland', published in 1817. His name is spelt as 'Spafarief' or 'Spafarieff' in the United States.
The Spafaryev Islands in the Sea of Okhotsk and Spafarief Bay in the coast of Alaska...
Bland arbeten.
Atlas of the Gulf of Finland containing the South Coast, with the Islands from cape Luserort to Cronstadt with Light houses & Towers necessary to be known for sailing by night.
Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.
Hertigdömet Luxembourg, Ärkebiskopsdömet Trier. - Blaeu 1643/44.
