1562-1622.
Plancius was a theologian and minister of the Dutch Reformed Church who fled with many of his compatriots from religious persecution in Flanders to settle in Amsterdam in 1585. There he became interested in navigation and cartography and, being fortunate enough to have access to nautical charts recently brought from Portugal, he was soon recognized as an expert on the shipping routes to India. He was interested, too, in the idea of a North East passage until the failure of Willem Barentsz's third voyage in 1597 seemed to preclude the possibility of such a route. In 1602 he was appointed cartographer to the new Dutch East India Company.
Although Plancius produced no atlases his individual maps and charts, over 100 in all, exercised much influence on the work of other cartographers at the turn of the century. His very large wall map of the world dated 1592 was of particular significance.
Se GERRITSZ.
Tooley.
CORONELLI, VICENTIUS. [Vincenco Maria]
1650-1718.
Italiensk matematiker och geograf. Han arbetade först som snickare men gick snart med i en klosterorden, där han bedrev flitiga studier inom flera områden, och 23 år gammal tog han en doktorsgrad. Kort därefter blev han ordens 'minister provincialis' i Ungern. 1686 blev han kosmograf för republiken Venedig, senare också professor i geografi vid universitetet i Venedig.
Franciscan monk, was one of the pre-eminent globe makers, his crowning glory being the pair of giant globes he made for Louis XIV, 3,9 metres in diameter.
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
'Hanko - Jussarö.' - Finland 1940.
