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Biografier.

STRADELLI, ERMANNO.


Ermanno Stradelli è il più importante esploratore italiano dell'Amazzonia. Nato nel 1852 a Borgotaro (Parma) in una famiglia nobile da cui eredita il titolo di conte, studia nel collegio Santa Caterina di Pisa, si iscrive alla facoltà di giurisprudenza di quell'ateneo e compone versi, ma ben presto si dedica per conto proprio a studi di etnologia, topografia, farmacologia e omeopatia, botanica e zoologia, fotografia, portoghese e spagnolo, tutto quanto cioè gli è necessario per realizzare il suo sogno di diventare esploratore e geografo. Nel 1879, a sue spese, si reca in Brasile, arrivando a Manaus, base delle sue spedizioni in vari punti dell'Amazzonia. Visita la regione del Vaupés una prima volta nel 1881 e di nuovo nel 1882, quando risale il Vaupés fino a Yavaraté e il Papurí fino a Piracuara. Rientra in Italia nel 1884 per terminare rapidamente gli studi universitari di diritto ed esercita per qualche tempo a Genova. Ma l'innamoramento per la selva è sempre forte: nel 1885 pubblica a Piacenza Eiara, poeme
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Feltrinelli Traveller 1999.


Goos, Abraham.

fl. 1614-43
Abraham Goos was a noted engraver in Amsterdam who prepared plates for many maps published in well-known atlases of his time including Speed's A Prospect ofthe Most Famous Parts of the World (1627) and the 1632 edition of Speed's Atlas. He was related to the Hondius family by whom he was also employed as an engraver. In 1616 he issued a book of maps, the Nieuw Nederlandtsh Caertboeck (4to) which was re-issued in 1619 and 1625.

His son, Pieter, continued and extended his father's business and became one of the group of well-known engravers of sea charts active in Amsterdam in the middle years of the seventeenth century. In common with Colom, Doncker and Jacobsz he published a pilot guide, the Zee-Spiegel, basing it on plates obtained from Jacobsz. This went through many editions in different languages under the startling titles so popular at the time. In addition to publishing his Zee-Spiegel in the usual Parts 1 and II (Europe and Atlantic coasts) and Part III (Mediterranean) he broke new ground in pre
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Andry, Charles-Louis-François


Bland arbeten.
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.



Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.



Sotholms Härad (med Nynäshamns köping) - 1912


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GOOS, PIETER.

Biografiska uppgifter:1616-75.
Holländsk kartograf. Utmärkte sig som kopparstickare och verkade som sådan i Amsterdam, men är först och främst känd för sina sjökartverk. 'De Lichtende Colomne ofte Zee-Spiegel' som kom ut i 12 utgåvor 1654-88, och 'Zee-Atlas ofte Waer-Weerelt' som kom ut i 16 utgåvor under 10 år (1666-76). Som förläggare gav han ut ett flertal verk om navigation och besläktade ämnen.

Dutch cartographer and copperplate engraver based in Amsterdam. Famous for his marine maps in De Lichtende Colomne ofle Zee-Spiegel published 1654-88, and Zee-Atlas ofle Waer-Wereld published 1666-76. Goos also produced works on navigation.

Abraham Goos son, Pieter, continued and extended his father's business and became one of the group of well-known engravers of sea charts active in Amsterdam in the middle years of the seventeenth century. In common with Colom, Doncker and Jacobsz he published a pilot guide, the Zee-Spiegel, basing it on plates obtained from Jacobsz. This went through many editions in different languages under the startling titles so popular at the time. In addition to publishing his Zee-Spiegel in the usual Parts 1 and II (Europe and Atlantic coasts) and Part III (Mediterranean) he broke new ground in preparing Parts IV and V, covering charts and sailing directions for the coasts of the West Indies and West Africa. The later editions of the Zee Atlas were published by his widow who eventually sold the publishing rights of the Atlas and of the Zee-Spiegel to Jacobus Robijn.
Bland arbeten:
De Lichtende Colomne ofte Zee-Spiegel.
Zee-Atlas ofte Waer-Weerelt.
(Nederl. biogr., X. - Wieder. Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.)

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