Sophianos was well known as an expert on Greek history and geography. He was sent to Greece in about 1543 by Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, the Spanish envoy to Venice, to acquire Greek manuscripts for the Escurial Library. It is about this time – possibly in 1540, the date found at the end of Sophianos text on this map – that Sophianus compiled his great map of Greece, although there is no surviving example.
In 1544, Johann Oporinus, a printer and publisher in Basle, published an eight-sheet version of Sophianos map, cut by Master Christoph of Strasburg. Of this earliest printing, there is also no known extant example. Indeed, the earliest surviving printing of the map recorded by Zacharakis or Karrow was printed by Johann Schroeter in Basle in 1601.
It appears that Oporinus reprinted the map in 1545 to accompany his edition of Gerbelius “In Descriptionem Graeciae Sophiani, Praefatio….”. Although the book gives instructions on colouring the map, and contains additional gazetteer, the map seems not to ha...
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Descriptio nova totivs Graeciae per Nicolavm Sophianvm. Basle, 1544-1545, large woodcut wall-map of Greece, on eight sheets uncut, each sheet approx. 380 x 280mm., with an additional sheet with letterpress gazetteer. Of great rarity. The earliest surviving wall-map of Greece and the first significant modern map of Greece, compiled by Nickolaos Sophianos, a Greek cartographer from Corfu, born of a noble family there. This example is apparently the second state of the map. It retains the date 1544 just above the scale bar on the bottom right hand skeet, but the letterpress text in the left hand cartouche on the lower left sheet may have been reset, in whole or part, as it ends with the date “prid[ie] Calend[is]. Septembr[is]. Anno salutis publiae M D X L V”.
Sotheby's. Zacharakis, Printed Maps of Greece: Sophianos 2242; Karrow, Mapmakerers of the Sixteenth Century, 71/1.2.
16 april 1822 - 25 september 1878.
August Heinrich Petermann, född 16 april 1822 i Bleicherode, Sachsen, död genom självmord 25 september 1878 i Gotha, var en tysk kartograf och geograf.
Petermann arbetade 1839-45 vid Heinrich Berghaus kartografiska institut i Potsdam, där han huvudsakligen sysslade med Berghaus 'Physikalischer Atlas'. Han tecknade även kartor till skrifter av Alexander von Humboldt. År 1845 begav han sig till Edinburgh för att biträda Alexander Keith Johnston vid den engelska bearbetningen av nämnda atlas och grundlade 1847 i London en kartografisk anstalt. År 1854 anställdes han hos Justus Perthes i Gotha och utgav sedan 1855 'Mitteilungen aus Justus Perthes geographischer Anstalt', vilken tidskrift, vanligen kallad 'Petermanns Mitteilungen', blev ett centralorgan för den geografiska vetenskapen.
Som kartograf utmärkte Petermann sig genom ett omsorgsfullt och kritiskt arbete med de mest skilda källor. Särskild kända är hans stora karta över det inre Afrika, hans karta i sex blad över USA samt hans karta i nio blad över...
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'Mitteilungen aus Justus Perthes geographischer Anstalt'
'Physikalischer Atlas'
'Stieler'
Nordisk Familjebok.
1664-1740.
In 1691, employed by Petter Gedda as tutor at the marine officers' college. Strömcrona would later succeed Gedda, first as captain then director of pilots. For more than 40 years, he was responsible for sea measurements and the charting of Swedish shipping waters.
Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.
Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.
'Imperii Russici...' - L. Euler 1760.
