PHILIPPE DE PRETOT, ÉTIENNE-ANDRÉ.
Ca. 1708-87. Född i London, död i Brighton.
Engelsk bokhandlare och förläggare. 1788 öppnade han i Leicester en bok- och pappershandel som snart blev ett centrum för revolutionär litteratur. Vid sidan om detta startade han 1792 en tidskrift, 'Leicester Herald', som han själv redigerade. 1795 flyttade han sin verksamhet till London och grundade där tidskriften 'Monthly Magazine' och flera andra skrifter. Hans förlagsverksamhet omfattade särskilt klassisk litteratur samt geografiska och naturvetenskapliga verk. 1807 blev han vald till sheriff av London.
Bland arbeten.
Leicester Herald.
Monthly Magazine.
Dict. nat. biogr.
JOACHIM OTTENS 1663-1719
REINER OTTENS (son) 1698-1750
JOSHUA OTTENS (son) 1704-65
Holländskt kartförlag, etablerat i Amsterdam 1726 av bröderna Reiner och Iosua Ottens vid deras övertag av ett äldre konst- och kartföretag. Firman utgav en större atlas och en 'Atlas Minor' i en rad odaterade utgåvor. De ombesörjde även nyutgåvor av Louis Renards (se denne) navigationsatlas. Detta kan tyda på att det var hans företag som de övertog.
The family business of print and map selling was founded by Joachim Ottens but the active period of map publishing was concentrated in the years between 1720 and 1750 when the brothers, Reiner and Joshua, produced enormous collections of maps, some as large as 15 volumes. These, including copies of practically all maps available at the time, were made up to order and were magnificently coloured. Besides these specially prepared collections they also issued single-volume atlases with varying contents as well as pocket atlases.
Bland arbeten.
Atlas Minor.
Kleerkooper. - Phillips.
Född i Nijmegen 1509, död i Antwerpen 1591.
Jode, (Judaeis, Judaeus) Gerard de (1509-1591). Born in Nijmegen, died at Antwerp.
Engraver, printer, printseller, publisher, cartographer.
Bland arbeten.
Ortelius' World 1564
Gastaldi's World 1555
Musinus' Europe 1560
Seco's Portugal 1563
Speculum Orbis Terrarum 1578, reissued by Cornelius de Jode 1593.
Tooley 1979
Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.
Göteborg - Svecia Antiqua et Hodierna.
Frisius, Gemma. [Reinerszoon, Jemme.]
Biografiska uppgifter:9 december 1508 - 25 maj 1555.
Gemma Frisius was a physician, mathematician, cartographer, philosopher, and instrument maker. He created important globes, improved the mathematical instruments of his day and applied mathematics in new ways to surveying and navigation.
Frisius was born in Dokkum, Friesland (present-day Netherlands) of poor parents, who died when he was young. He moved to Groningen and studied at the University in Leuven beginning in 1525. He received the degree of MD in 1536 and remained on the faculty of medicine in Leuven for the rest of his life. His oldest son, Cornelius Gemma, edited a posthumous volume of his work and continued to work with Ptolemaic astrological models.
While still a student, Frisius set up a workshop to produce globes and mathematical instruments. He became noted for the quality and accuracy of his instruments, which were praised by Tycho Brahe, among others. In 1533, he described for the first time the method of triangulation still used today in surveying. Twenty years later, he was the first to describe how an accurate clock could be used to determine longitude. Jean-Baptiste Morin (1583–1656) did not believe that Frisius' method for calculating longitude would work, remarking, 'I do not know if the Devil will succeed in making a longitude timekeeper but it is folly for man to try.'
Frisius created or improved many instruments, including the cross-staff, the astrolabe and the astronomical rings. His students included Gerardus Mercator (who became his collaborator), Johannes Stadius, John Dee, Andreas Vesalius and Rembert Dodoens.
A lunar crater has been named after him.
Bland arbeten:
(Cosmographia (1529) von Petrus Apianus, annotated by Gemma Frisius)
De principiis astronomiae et cosmographiae (1530)
De usu globi (1530)
Libellus de locorum describendorum ratione (1533)
Arithmeticae practicae methodus facilis (1540)
De annuli astronomici usu (1540)
De radio astronomico et geometrico (1545)
De astrolabio catholico (1556)
