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THACKARA, JAMES.

1767-1848.
Thackara was eight months old when he and his parents came to Philadelphia from England. He apprenticed with Robert Scott and James Trenchard as an engraver from 1786 to 1789. In 1790 he married James Trenchard's sister Hannah. Thackara was curator for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1816 to 1828, and he is listed as an engraver in the Philadelphia City Directories from 1791 to 1833. His partnership with John Vallance is listed in the 1794 City Directory. He and his son William formed the firm of Thackara and Son in 1832. Thackara was elected Commissioner of the District of Southwark Philadelphia in 1797, and served as clerk of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1807 to 1810.


Washington Map Society.

WANGERSTEEN, OVE ANDREAS.

Död 1763.
Norsk officer och kartograf. Han började i militär tjänst ca. 1743 och blev eldledare vid 'Christiansanske artillerikompaniet' 1745. 1750 blev han förflyttad till 'Akershusiske artillerikompaniet', 1753 blev han styckjunkare, 1755 artillerilöjtnant i Fredrikstad och 1759 kapten. Han var en av pionjärerna som kämpade för en självständig norsk kartografi, men arbetade dessvärre under mycket knappa förhållanden. Det kan nämnas att han 1761 fick 400 riksdaler i förskott för gravering av sin Norgekarta. Beloppet skulle betalas tillbaka så snart han fick möjlighet.


Ovenstad.

ZIEGLER, JACOB [Ciglerus, Landavus].

1470-1549.
Born in Landau, Professor in Vienna. Palestine 1532 (Maps of Palestine and one of Northern Regions, the first printed map to show magnetic variation.)


Tooley.


Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936


Hortus Eystettensis - Basil Besler 1613.

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MAKHAYEV, MIKHAIL IVANOVICH.

Biografiska uppgifter:B. Smolenskoye, Vereysky district [now Moscow region], 1716-18; d. St Petersburg, 25 Feb 1770.
Russian draughtsman and engraver. He was the son of a priest, and from 1729 he studied at the St Petersburg Naval Academy. In August 1731 he was transferred to the instrument-making department of the Academy of Sciences, where he helped to make land-surveying instruments, including theodolites (a training that was of value when he later came to sketch views of St Petersburg); he also learnt how to carve moulds for dies under Georg Unfertsagt (1701-67); and he studied drawing under the two members of the Academy staff, Ottmar Elliger II and Elias Grimmel (1703-58). In June 1743 Makhayev was made director of the cartographic and die-carving section of the Academy, and he was employed there for the rest of his life. Together with his pupils he helped to produce the Atlas rossiyskoy imperii ('Atlas of the Russian Empire'; 1740s); in addition, he provided inscriptions for diplomas for honorary members of the Academy, for porcelain snuff-boxes and for a large silver shrine at the tomb of Aleksandr Nevsky (early 1750s; St Petersburg, Hermitage).

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