1706-84.
Engelsk kartograf. Han utarbetade en 'Universal Atlas' som kom i flera utgåvor, även efter hans död. (4:e ed., 1790).
Bland arbeten.
Universal Atlas.
Phillips.
Often called 'Donis' from a misapprehension of the title 'Donnus' or 'Donus' an abbreviated form of 'Dominus.
A fifteenth-century cartographer, place of birth, and date of birth and death unknown. The first allusion to him of authentic date is an injunction of Duke Borso d'Este (15 March, 1466) to his referendary and privy counselor, Ludovico Casella, at Ferrara, to have the 'Cosmographia of Don Nicolò' thoroughly examined and then to determine a recompense for it. The duke, on the thirtieth of the same month, called upon his treasurers for 100 florins in gold 'to remit as a mark of his appreciation to Donnus Nicolaus Germanus for his excellent book entitled 'Cosmographia''. On 8 April, 1466, the duke again drew thirty golden florins to present to the Rev. Nicolaus, who 'in addition to that excellent Cosmography' (ultra illud excellens Cosmographie opus) had dedicated to the duke a calendar made to cover many years to come ('librum tacuini multorum annorum'). The 'Cosmographia' as preserved in the Biblioth...
FISCHER, Nicolaus Germanus in Entdeckungen der Normannen in Amerika (Freiburg, 1902), 75-90, 113 sqq. (Eng. tr., London, 1903), 72-86, 108 sqq.
Född 1758 20/6 i S:t Michels sn (S:t Michel), död 1825 17/5 på sin egendom Kyyhkylä i nämnda sn.
Överstelöjtnant. Tecknare och etsare. Skriftställare. Son av majoren Carl Johan von F. och Ebba Charlotta Furumarck. Utnämndes 1812 till chef för den av honom projekterade nyupprättade Topografiska kåren i Haapaniemi.
Bland arbeten.
O. C. VON FIEANDT, Om sättet att rita militäriske cartor, Åbo 1804: karta över Säterholms säteri.
Hultmark, 1944.
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
'Scaniae, Blekingiae et Hallandiae.' - Matthaeus Seutter ca 1710-1740.
