LAUREMBERG, JOHANNES WILHELM [WILMS].
1590-1658.
From Rostock. Author, mathematician, historian.
Bland arbeten.
Mecklenburg, used by Blaeu 1630 and Hondius 1633,
Macedonia 1647,
Sea Atlas Greece and Aegean 1650,
Cyclades 1662,
Atlas Graecia Antiqua 1656.
Tooley.
1698-1764. Född i Aarhus, död i Köpenhamn.
Dansk-norsk teolog och författare. 1716 började han studera och tog en teologisk examen 1718. Verkade senare som lärare och präst i ett antal städer. 1740 blev han professor i teologi vid universitetet i Köpenhamn, 1747 biskop i Bergen och 1755 prokansler vid universitetet. Av hans omfångsrika författarskap nämns här endast 'Det förste Forsög paa Norges naturlige Historie' i två band (1752-53), rikt illustrerat med bilder och naturhistoriska figurer. Detta verk kom även i en tysk och en engelsk utgåva.
Bland arbeten.
Det förste Forsög paa Norges naturlige Historie.
Ehrencron.
Middleton, previously a captain in the employ of The Hudson Bay Company, was financed by Arthur Dobbs to explore the north-western extremities of Hudson Bay in search of a north-western passage. The expedition, from 1741-42, should have disproved notions of such a passage, but the increasingly delusional Dobbs convinced himself that Middleton had deliberately falsified his findings, and mounted an attack on the captain’s integrity, using a series of rather dubious maps distorted to support his viewpoint.
Middleton’s chart over Hudson Bay, published before the eruption of the controversy, is of great importance as the attempt at an accurate survey of the west coast of Hudson Bay (Cumming et al, Exploration of North America, p. 188), and the only reliable printed cartographic record of the captain’s discoveries. Surprisingly, the chart was not included in Middleton’s book defending his reputation, and is now rare.
Bland arbeten.
Hudson Bay.
Sotheby's
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
af Wirsén - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1900.
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.)
