SÖK KARTOGRAFER, GRAVÖRER M.FL.

BURE(US), ANDERS (ANDREAS).

1571-1646. Född i Säbrå, död i Stockholm.
Svensk ämbetsman och kartograf. Han började som kanslitjänsteman, men arbetade vid sidan om med genelogiska, astronomiska och kartografiska studier. 1602 deltog han i kartläggningen av Stockholm, 1619-20 vid gränsdragningen mellan Finland och Ryssland. 1623 fick han överinseende för det offentliga byggväsendet i Sverige och år 1628 blev han utnämnd att organisera det svenska lantmäteriet samt fick med denna ställning ett grundläggande inflytande över utvecklingen av det svenska lantmäteriväsendet. Han blev senare assessor vid krigskollegiet och krigsråd. - Som kartograf fick han 1603 i uppdrag av Karl IX att kartlägga Sverige och Finland. Resultatet framlades år 1611 med kartan 'Lapponiae. Bothaniae Cajaniaeque regni Suecie provinciarum septentrionalium nova delineatio'. Med stöd från Gustav Adolf fortsatte han sitt kartläggningsarbete och gav 1626 ut 'Orbis Arctoi nova et accurata delineatio', ett verk på 6 blad i förhållandevis litet format. Första utgåvan finns idag bara i ett fåtal exemplar. Hans kartor ...
Bland arbeten.
Lapponiae. Bothaniae Cajaniaeque regni Suecie provinciarum septentrionalium nova delineatio, 1611, sannolikt grav. av B.
Orbis Arctoi nova et accurata delineatio.

Hultmark, 1944.Lönborg, s. 10-16. - Orbis. - Sv. män och kv.Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin

JODE, GERARD de

Född i Nijmegen 1509, död i Antwerpen 1591.
Jode, (Judaeis, Judaeus) Gerard de (1509-1591). Born in Nijmegen, died at Antwerp.
Engraver, printer, printseller, publisher, cartographer.
Bland arbeten.
Ortelius' World 1564
Gastaldi's World 1555
Musinus' Europe 1560
Seco's Portugal 1563
Speculum Orbis Terrarum 1578, reissued by Cornelius de Jode 1593.

Tooley 1979

Cellarius, Andreas.

(c. 1596, Neuhausen, – 1665, Hoorn)
Cellarius was a Dutch-German cartographer, best known for his Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1660, a major star atlas, published by Johannes Janssonius in Amsterdam.
He was born in Neuhausen (now a part of Worms), and was educated in Heidelberg. The Protestant Cellarius may have left Heidelberg at the onset of the Thirty Years' War in 1618 or in 1622 when the city came in Catholic hands. His activities are unclear at this time but based on his later works it is conjectured he spent time in Poland and may have even worked as a military engineer there. In 1625 he married Catharina Elt(e)mans in Amsterdam, where he worked as school master of a Latin School. After a brief stay in The Hague, the family moved to Hoorn. From 1637 until his death he was rector of the Latin School in Hoorn, where Pieter Anthoniszoon Overtwater was conrector.
He published on fortification and on Poland.
The minor planet 12618 Cellarius is named in his honour.

Andreas Cellarius

The Dutch-German mathematician and cosmogr...
Bland arbeten.
Harmonia macrocosmica sea atlas universalis et novus. Amsterdam: G. Valck and P. schenk, 1708.
Folio (530 x 320mm), allegorical title engraved by F. H. van Hoven, printed in red and black with woodcut vignette, letterpress title with contents and 29 double-page engraved cosmographical charts finely coloured by hand, without text.
One of the most fascinating achievement from the golden age of Dutch cartography. The Harmonia macrocosmica is the only atlas of the period dealing with astronomy.
Unlike the late celestial atlases, the Cellarius charts demonstrated various ancient and contemporary cosmological ideas, rather than just the names and positions of the stars. The purpose of the book was to assess different attempts to discover the underlying harmony of the universe. The charts represent the highest levels of seventeenth-century astronomical thought, with the diagram showing aspects of the three great theories on the nature of the universe; the Ptolemaic, the Copernican and the Brahean.

Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936

En, Juniperus communis - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.

NICOLAUS GERMANUS.

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 Bibliotheca Estensis at Modena comprises a Latin translation of the Geography of Ptolemy with maps. The version of the geographical text is substantially the same as that dedicated in 1410 to Pope Alexander V by Jacopo Angelo, a Florentine. In the execution of the maps, however, Nicolaus, instead of adhering to the flat projection of Ptolemy, chose what is known as the 'Donis-projection', because first worked out by him, in which the parallels of latitude are equi- distant, but the meridians are made to converge towards the pole. He likewise introduced new modes in delineating the outlines of countries and oceans, mountains and lakes, as well as in the choice of cartographic proportions. He reduced the awkward size to one which was convenient for use; the obscure and often unattractive mode of presentation he replaced by one both tasteful and easily intelligible; he endeavored to revise obsolete maps in accordance with later information and to supplement them with new maps. While his first recension embraced only the twenty-seven maps of Ptolemy (one map of the world, ten special maps of Europe, four of Africa, twelve of Asia), the second comprised thirty (including in addition modern maps of Spain, Italy, and the Northern countries: Sweden, Norway, and Greenland). The last-named enlarged recension he dedicated as priest to Pope Paul II (1464-71). He dedicated to the same pontiff his third recension, containing thirty-two maps, adding modern maps of France and the Holy Land. The works of the German cartographer were of great value in diffusing the knowledges of Ptolemy's Geography. The first recension, probably the very copy in the Lenox Library (New York), is the basis of the Roman editions of Ptolemy bearing the dates 1478, 1490, and 1507; on the third, certainly the copy preserved in Wolfegg Castle, are based the Ulm editions of 1482 and 1486. By combining the Roman and Ulm editions Waldseemüller produced the maps of Ptolemy in the Strasburg edition of 1513, which was frequently copied. The modern map of the Northern countries, made by Claudius Clavus, which Nicolaus embodied in his second recension of Ptolemy, was perhaps the source of the Zeni map which had such far-reaching influence, and likewise of the maritime charts of the Canerio and Cantino type. The revised map of the Northern countries in the third recension of Nicolaus, which placed Greenland north of the Scandinavian Peninsula, was a powerful factor in cartography for a century, especially as Waldseemuller gave the preference to this representation in his world and wall map of 1507, 'the baptismal certificate of America'. Because of these and other services to geography and cartography, as for example, by the revision of Buondelmonte's 'Insularium', it would be desirable to have it established whether Nicolaus was really, as I conjecture, a Benedictine father of the Badia at Florence.
(FISCHER, Nicolaus Germanus in Entdeckungen der Normannen in Amerika (Freiburg, 1902), 75-90, 113 sqq. (Eng. tr., London, 1903), 72-86, 108 sqq.)

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