Montanus, Petrus. [Pieter van den Berg]
ft. 1606.
A Dutch geographer, active in Amsterdam, who worked in association with his brother-in-law, J odocus Hondius, for whom he prepared the text of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas (1606 and later editions). The map noted below, attributed to Montanus, is the first separately printed one of Maryland; known as 'Lord Baltimore's Map' it was published by him to attract settlers to the colony.
Död 1712.
Son till Frederick de Wit d.ä. Var en skolad matematiker som förbättrade och ajourförde kartorna på många punkter och de blev mycket populära. Tog över faderns verksamhet.
Se DELAMARCHE, CHARLES-FRANCOIS.
Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.
'...Regnum Poloniae et Magnum Ducatum Lithuaniae...' - Lotter ca 1770.