PAGÉS, PIERRE MARIE FRANCOIS, vicomte de.
Född i Toulouse, död i Saint-Domnique på Haiti.
Fransk sjöofficer. Som löjtnant ledde han 1767-71 en expedition som sökte finna Nordostpassagen. Han tvingades ge upp hoppet om detta, men förestod istället en rad vetenskapliga observationer och mätningar i Indiska Oceanen och Stilla Havet. 1772 deltog han i Kerguelen-Trèmarecs exedition till sydpolsområdet och 1776 ledde han en nordpolsexpedition. Han nådde emellertid inte längre än till Svalbard. Hans bok om dessa tre resor, 'Voyages autour du monde et vers les deux póles' utkom 1782 och blev översatt till flera språk, däribland svenska. Efter att ha avancerat till kapten drog han sig 1782 tillbaka i Saint-Dominique där han drev en plantage. Han blev mördad under ett negeruppror i förbindelse med franska revolutionen.
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Voyages autour du monde et vers les deux póles.
Nouv. biogr. gen.
fl 1610-1635.
Nicolaes van Geelkercken, one of the lesser-known figures of the highly productive Dutch period at the beginning of the seventeenth century, was active as an engraver, cartographer and publisher in Leiden, Amsterdam and Arnhem. He was later become the Surveyor of Gelderland.
His earliest known work is a world map of 1610. His second world map published by Janssonius in Amsterdam, in the second state with the addition of Le Maire’s Strait.
Engraver, cartographer, publisher active in Leyden, Amhem and Amsterdam in the early years of the seventeenth century. His maps, though few in number, were particularly elegant.
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World map 1610 / 1618.
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Nuremberg 1671.
An acclaimed astronomer, was born in Nuremburg in 1671. He was a member of the Royal Society of London and the Academies of Berlin, Vienna and St. Petersburg. He visited astronomers in many countries, and hence in addition to the star charts and selenographic map, the atlas includes “diagrams illustrating the planetary system of Copernicus, Tycho and Riccioli; the ecliptic theories of Kepler, Boulliau, Seth Ward and Mercator; the lunar theories of Tycho, Horrocks and Newton, and Halley’s cometary theory” (DSB).
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Atlas novus Coelestis. Nuremberg: Homann’s Heirs, 1742.
First edition, folio (560 x 390mm), engraved allegorical additional titles (plain), title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved index listing 30 subjects and 30 double-page engraved celestial charts and diagrams, some incorporating miniature world maps or spandrel illustrations of astronomical observatories, in contemporary hand colour and wash.
Doppelmayr, an acclaimed astronomer, was born in Nuremberg in 1671. He was a member of the Royal Society of London and the Academies of Berlin, Vienna and St. Petersburg.
It is not surprising that Dopplemayr collaborated with Germany’s leading map publisher Johann Baptist Homann on both the terrestrial and celestial maps included in this atlas. He visited astronomers in many countries and hence in addition to the star charts and selenographic map, the atlas includes “diagrams illustrating the planetary system of Copernicus, Tycho, and Riccilio; the ecliptic theories of Kepler, Bouliaeu, Seth Ward and Mercator; the lunar theories of Tycho, Horrocks and Newton, and Halley’s cometary theory” (DSB IV, p. 166).
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Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
Finlands sydkust. Helsingfors. - Stockholm 1921.
