SÖK KARTOGRAFER, GRAVÖRER M.FL.

WEBER, JOHANN JACOB.

1803-80.
Tysk förlagsbokhandlare. Född i Siblingen, död i Leipzig. Efter utbildning i bokhandlarkonsten i Basel, Genève, Paris och Freiburg etablerade han sig i Leipzig 1833. Han intresserade sig speciellt för illustrerade verk och gav bl.a. ut 'Pfenningmagazin' och 'Illustrierte Zeitung'. Förlaget existerade åtminstone till 1950-talet.

Bland arbeten.
Pfenningmagazin.
Illustrierte Zeitung.

Der Grosse Brockhaus.

GEDDA, PETTER.

1661-97.
Kartograf, från 1687 styrmansdirektör vid amiralitetet, en befattning närmast motsv. såväl generallotsdirektörens som chefens för sjökarteverket i vår tid. G. utarbetade nya författningar rörande lotsväsendet, vilka sedaan länge förblevo gällande, och upprättade och utgav tills. med sin företrädare W. v. Rosenfeldt den första svenska sjöatlasen 1694, 'General hydrographisk chart-book öfwer Östersiön', vilken s.å. även utkom i engelsk och holländsk uppl. Genom detta kartarbete tillvann sig G. en framstående plats inom den svenska kartografiens historia.

Worked at the Survey office, from 1681 in marine measurement and production of maps under Admiral Werner von Rosenfeldt. In 1681 appointed principal at the Admiralty. In 1687 Gedda was appointed director of pilots, taking over von Rosenfeldt's responsibilities for the pilots and hydrographical surveying. They continued collaborating, and in 1695 produced the first printed Swedish marine atlas to provide a correct, albeit very general, view of the Kattega...
Bland arbeten.
General hydrographisk chart-book öfwer Östersiön.

Svensk Uppslagsbok.Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.

MASSA [MASSART, MASSAERT], ISAAC.

Baptized October 7, 1586 in Haarlem, died 1643.
Dutch cartographer and traveller to Moscow.
Isaac Abrahamszoon Massa was a Dutch grain trader, traveller and diplomat, the envoy to Muscovy, author of memoirs witnessing the Time of Troubles and the maps of Eastern Europe and Siberia. Massa's experience in and knowledge of Muscovy transformed him into a Dutch 'Kremlinologist.' The Isaac Massa Foundation in Groningen aims to stimulate scientific and cultural contacts between the Russian Federation and the Netherlands.
Isaac Massa was born in a wealthy silk merchant's family that relocated from Liege to Haarlem before his birth. His ancestors could have been Italian huguenots who fled their homeland in the beginning of the Reformation. The family surname was also known as Massart, Massaert.
In 1601 Isaac left Haarlem for Moscow to assist the family trade. Isaac has been witness to the second half of Boris Godunov's reign that evolved into a civil war now known as the Time of Troubles. He survived the capture of Moscow by False Dmitriy I and left Russi...
Bland arbeten.
Plans of Moscow 1610, 1618;
N. Russia 1612 and
South Russia, used by Blaeu & Jansson.

Tooley.

Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.

Grebbestad 1843 - Topografiska Corpsen.

LISLE, GUILLAUME de.

Biografiska uppgifter:1675-1726. Född och död i Paris.
Fransk geograf och kartograf. Han fick sin utbildning hos sin far, historiken Claude de Lisle, som även var geograf. 1699 gav han ut en världskarta, kartor över de 4 världsdelarna och två glober, en över jordklotet och en över himlen. Runt 1700 kom hans 'Atlas Nouveau' som innehöll 24 kartor. Senare utgåvor kom ca 1730 med 54 kartor, 1733 och ca 1745 utökad till 116 kartor. Han blev 1702 invald i L'Académie Rle de Sciences och blev 1718 Premier Geographe du Roi. Han var vän till Peter den Store som gav honom upplysningar om Ryssland. De Lisles kartor blev i stor utsträckning efterliknade av samtidiga och senare kartografer, till viss del grovt plagierade. Han gjorde sig även gällande som författare. Förutom talrika avhandlingar i tidskrifter utgav han bl.a. 'Observation sur la variation de l'aiguille aimantée' (1710) och 'Justification des mesures des anciens en matière de géographie' (1714). Hans verk fördes vidare av Phillippe Buache (1700-73).

Guillaume De L'Isle (1675-1726) is probably the greatest figure in French cartography. Having learned geography from his father Claude, by age of eight or nine he could draw maps to demonstrate ancient history. He studied mathematics and astronomy under J.D Cassini, where he received the grounding in scientific cartography, that is the hallmark of his work. His first atlas was published in about 1700, in 1702 he was elected a member of the Academie Royale des Sciences, and in 1718 he became ‘Premier Geographe du Roi’. His maps of the newly explored parts of the world reflect the most up-to-date information available and did not contain fanciful detail in the absence of solid information.

De L'Isle's work was important as marking a transition from the maps of the Dutch school, which were highly decorative and artistically-orientated, to a more scientific approach. He reduced the importance given to the decorative elements in maps, and emphasised the scientific base on which they were constructed. It can be fairly said that he was truly the father of the modern school of cartography at the commercial level.

De L’Isle also played a prominent part in the recalculation of latitude and longitude, based on the most up-to-date celestial observations. His major contribution was in collating and incorporating this latitudinal and longitudinal information in his maps, setting a new standard of accuracy, quickly followed by many of his contemporaries. Guillaume De L’Isle’s work was widely copied by other mapmakers of the period, including Chatelain, Covens & Mortier, and Albrizzi.
Bland arbeten:
Atlas Nouveau.
Observation sur la variation de l'aiguille aimantée.
Justification des mesures des anciens en matière de géographie.
(Lönborg, s. 143f. - Nouv. biogr. gen)

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