Was the most important member of an Augsburg family of artists and publishers. He was the German representative of the 'Vue d'Optique' , a genre of copper engravings showing in the size of this here shown print the architectural 'wonders of the world' to people mainly during fairs. The prints were pushed into a view box and the viewers, one at a time, could look through a lens to see the prints inserted into the box by the operator, for money, of course. There were French, Italian, Spanish, publishers of Vue d'Optique prints. But the most famous and the most true to facts ones came from the Augsburg workshop of G.B. Probst. He produced ca. 400 of them, not only views of places, but also a variety of other subject matters. While most prints of this genre were loudly and heavily colored, a small series was left black and white, truly showing their artistic value beyond the fulfilment of curiosity at fairs.
1401-64.
Kardinal. Utarbetade en karta över Tyskland. Se vidare under Münster, Sebastian.
Grek som benämns som ”historiebeskrivningens fader” (400-talet fKr). Lade grunden till T-Kartor, eller ”T i O-kartor” (Orbis Terrarum). Detta var en typ av religiösa kartor där Jerusalem ligger i världens mitt, de var mer symboliska än geografiska. Runt jorden fanns Oceanus och jordytan delades i tre delar av ett ”T”. Öster var ofta orienterat uppåt i kartan. Asien låg överst i kartan, under låg Europa till vänster och Afrika till höger. Delarna skiljdes av floderna Don (mellan Asien och Europa) och Nilen (mellan Asien och Afrika).
Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936
'America'. - Ortelius 1570.
JACOBSZ, THEUNIS (eller ANTHEUNIS).
Biografiska uppgifter:Ca. 1607-50. Född och död i Amsterdam.
c. 1606-50
JACOB JACOB5Z (LOOTSMAN) (son) d. 1679
Holländsk kartograf. Han var boktryckare och bokhandlare. 1648 gav han ut 't'Nieuw groot Straets-boeck, inhoudende d'Middelantse Zee'. Efter sin död gav sonen Jacob Theunisz (se denne) ut 't'Nieuwe en vergroote Zeeboeck, dat is des Piloots ofte Lootsmans Zee-Spiegel, inhoud de Zee-kusten vande Noordsche, Oosterzee ende Westersche Schipvaert' (1653). Båda dessa atlaser kom senare i flera utgåvor.
Anthonie Jacobsz founded a printing and publishing business in Amsterdam in which he specialized in the production of pilot books and sea atlases. As he died at a comparatively early age most of the numerous editions of his works appeared after his death published by his sons, Jacob and Caspar, who took the name 'Lootsman' (sea pilot) to distinguish them from another printer of the name Jacobsz.
Following Blaeu and Colom, Anthonie Jacobsz was the most important compiler of sea charts in Amsterdam in the first half of the seventeenth century. In his new ZeeSpiegel issued in 1643 he increased the number of charts normally included in these books and enlarged them to folio size, which evidently proved popular. Editions in many forms appeared until 1715 and they were copied or reprinted by Pieter Goos, Hendrick Doncker and Jan Jansson, sometimes in competition with each other but usually in cooperation with the Lootsman brothers.
Bland arbeten:
t'Nieuw groot Straets-boeck, inhoudende d'Middelantse Zee.
t'Nieuwe en vergroote Zeeboeck, dat is des Piloots ofte Lootsmans Zee-Spiegel, inhoud de Zee-kusten vande Noordsche, Oosterzee ende Westersche Schipvaert.
(Kleerkooper. - Phillips.)
