Middleton, previously a captain in the employ of The Hudson Bay Company, was financed by Arthur Dobbs to explore the north-western extremities of Hudson Bay in search of a north-western passage. The expedition, from 1741-42, should have disproved notions of such a passage, but the increasingly delusional Dobbs convinced himself that Middleton had deliberately falsified his findings, and mounted an attack on the captain’s integrity, using a series of rather dubious maps distorted to support his viewpoint.
Middleton’s chart over Hudson Bay, published before the eruption of the controversy, is of great importance as the attempt at an accurate survey of the west coast of Hudson Bay (Cumming et al, Exploration of North America, p. 188), and the only reliable printed cartographic record of the captain’s discoveries. Surprisingly, the chart was not included in Middleton’s book defending his reputation, and is now rare.
Bland arbeten.
Hudson Bay.
Sotheby's
fl. 1614-43
Abraham Goos was a noted engraver in Amsterdam who prepared plates for many maps published in well-known atlases of his time including Speed's A Prospect ofthe Most Famous Parts of the World (1627) and the 1632 edition of Speed's Atlas. He was related to the Hondius family by whom he was also employed as an engraver. In 1616 he issued a book of maps, the Nieuw Nederlandtsh Caertboeck (4to) which was re-issued in 1619 and 1625.
His son, Pieter, continued and extended his father's business and became one of the group of well-known engravers of sea charts active in Amsterdam in the middle years of the seventeenth century. In common with Colom, Doncker and Jacobsz he published a pilot guide, the Zee-Spiegel, basing it on plates obtained from Jacobsz. This went through many editions in different languages under the startling titles so popular at the time. In addition to publishing his Zee-Spiegel in the usual Parts 1 and II (Europe and Atlantic coasts) and Part III (Mediterranean) he broke new ground in pre...
Död 1712.
Son till Frederick de Wit d.ä. Var en skolad matematiker som förbättrade och ajourförde kartorna på många punkter och de blev mycket populära. Tog över faderns verksamhet.
Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.
'Trakten omkring Stockholm i IX blad' Sydöstra bladet. - 1861.
