SÖK KARTOGRAFER, GRAVÖRER M.FL.

HASE [HASIUS, HASIUES, HAAS, HAASE, HASIO], JOHANN MATTHIAS [JOHANNES].

14 januari 1684 - 24 september 1742.
Tysk matematiker och geograf. Född och död i Augsburg (enligt vissa källor i Wittenberg). Studerade teologi och matematik, och fick 1707 en magistersgrad vid universitetet i Leipzig. 1720 professor i matematik i Wittenberg. Förutom matematik och astronomi kom han där att ägna sig mycket åt historisk geografi och kartografi. Bland hans större arbeten kan nämnas 'Historiae universalis politicae idea plane, etc.' (1742). Efter hans död utkom 'Atlas historicus comprehendens imperia maxima seu monarchias orbis antiqui' (1746-50). Hasius ritade också en rad aktuella kartor varav de enkla specialkartorna över tyska provinser räknas bland de bästa inom sitt fack under 1700-talet. Verksamheten bidrog mycket till att frigöra tysk kartografi från främmande inflytande. (Allg. d. Biogr.)
Hase gjorde flertalet kartor som gavs ut av Homans arvingar.

Als Sohn eines Lehrers der Mathematik lernte Hase zunächst an seinem Geburtsort am St.-Anna-Gymnasium und wurde schon früh von seinem Vater für die Mathematik begeiste...
Bland arbeten.
* Specimen algebrae ad artem fortificatoriam applicatae. Magisterarbeit, Leipzig 1707
* Sciagraphia integri tractatus de constructione mapparum omnis generis, geographicarum, hydrographicarum et astronomicarum et in specie de projectionibus sphaerarum imprimis stereographica. Leipzig 1717
* Dissertatio physico-mathematica de tubis stentoreis, in qua de figura & constructione exponitur earum et auctorum qui de eis egerunt, sententiae explicantur ac momento suo ponderantur. Leipzig 1719
* Dissertatio De Tubis Stentoreis, Earumqve Forma Et Structura, Fundamenta Ejus Praxeos Exhibens / Qvam D.F.G. Pro Loco In Fac. Phil. Lips. Obtinendo Postrema Vice Disputaturus Ad Diem XVIII. Mart. MDCCXIX. Leipzig 1719
* Pithometriae sive doliorum mensurae theoria nova algebrae ope eruta et perfecta. 2 Bände Wittenberg 1723
* Dissertatio academica de nihilo mathematico et formulis affinibus harumque in specie illis, quibus nihilo minores quantitates exprimuntur. Wittenberg 1727
* Dissertatio Mathematica De Pulchritudine Architectonica Prior. Wittenberg 1727
* Phosphorus historiarum, vel prodromus theatri summorum imperiorum : hoc est, historiae politicae universalis partis potioris et principalis, sistens recensionem, catalogos, vel si mavis, sciagraptiam, aut tabulas principum vel imperantium in illis imperiis, etiamque ... quis eisdem connexis, una cum enumeratione ditionum geographica. Leipzig 1728
* Laudatio funebris ..., Leichenrede auf Christiane Eberhardine von Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Wittenberg 1728
* De Quantitatis Et Unitatis Arithmeticae Vera Notione. Wittenberg 1732
* Disputatio Mathematica In Qua Doctrinam De Effectu Lentium Simplicium Tam Extra Oculum Quam In Oculo Ope Algebrae Expeditiorem Redditam Sub Praesidio ... Wittenberg 1735
* Africa Secundum legitimas Projectionis Stereographicae regulas et juxta recentissimas relationes et observationes in subsidium vocatis quoquo veterum Leonis Africani Nubiensis Geographi et aliorum monumentis et eliminatis fabulosis aliorum desiganationibus pro praesenti statu ejus aptius exhibita; Cum Privil. S. C. M. nec non S. R. M. Polon. et Elect. Sax. Nürnberg 1737
* Regni Davidici et Salomonaei descriptio geographica et historica. Nürnberg 1739
* Phosphorus Historiarum vel Prodromus theatri summorum imperiorum. Leipzig 1742
* De Magnitudine Comparata Et Determinata Urbium : Quae Propter Ipsam Mangnitudinem Celebres Habentur Potissimum In Antiquitate ... Consideratione Quorundam Operum Veterum Ex Magnificentissimis. 1739
* Evropa : in partes suas X Methodicas a primariis regnis denominata secundum divisa fidem recentissimarum observationum Mathematicarum et Historicarum , et exhibita secundum legitimas projectionis Stereographis leges = L'Evrope Divise'e en ses X Principales Parties, Cum Priv. Sac. Caes. Majest. Grat. / a Ioh. Matth. Hasio, I. M. Seeligmann sc. Nor., sculp., I. C. Reinsperger sculpsit. Nürnberg 1743
* Circvli Sveviae Mappa = Le Cercle de Svabe / ex subsidijs Michalianis delineata & a D.no I. M. Hasio M. P. P. quo ad accuratam singulorum Statuum determinationem emendata & ad L L. magis legitimae project reducta. Opus summi Geographi posthumum, & adjuncta Tabula explanatoria editum opera Homannianorum Heredum. Nürnberg 1743
* Karte von dem russischen Reich und der grossen so wohl als kleinen crimischen Tartarey : nebst dem Entwurff einer Erklärung darüber abgefasset und der unüberwindlichsten und großmächtigsten Kaiserin Anna decidirt Nürnberg 1738 „Historiae universalis politicae idea”. Nürnberg 1743, Nachdruck Stuttgart 1976
* Planiglobii terrestris mappa universalis. 1746
* Dvcatvs Silesiae Tabvla Altera Svperiorem Silesiam = La Haute Silesie, qui comprend les Principautes de Neise, de Munsterberg, de Iaegerndorf, de Troppau, d' Oppeln, de Ratibor, de Teschen; Cum Priv. Sac. Cæs. Maj. / exhibens ex mappa Hasiana majore desumta & excusa per Homannianos Heredes. Nürnberg 1746
* Circuli Sueviae 1748 Nachdruck Stuttgart 1989
* Dvcatvs Silesiae Tabvla Geographica Prima Inferiorem Eivs Partem, seu Novem Principatvs, quorum insignia hic adjecta sunt, secundum statum recentissimium complectens = La Basse Silesiae qui comprend les Principautes de Schweidnitz, de Iaer, de Glogau, de Breslau, die Liegnitz, de Brieg, de Wolau, de Oels & de Sagan / Ad mentem Hasiani avtographi majoris legitime delineata et edita curis Homann. Heredum. Nürnberg nach 1750
* Descriptio geographico-historica regni Davidici et Salomonei cum delineatione Syriae et Aegypti : juncta est urbium maximarum veterum et recentiorum comparatio, multis mappis geographicis et ichnographicis adornata Nürnberg 1754

PROBST, GEORG BALTHASAR.

Was the most important member of an Augsburg family of artists and publishers. He was the German representative of the 'Vue d'Optique' , a genre of copper engravings showing in the size of this here shown print the architectural 'wonders of the world' to people mainly during fairs. The prints were pushed into a view box and the viewers, one at a time, could look through a lens to see the prints inserted into the box by the operator, for money, of course. There were French, Italian, Spanish, publishers of Vue d'Optique prints. But the most famous and the most true to facts ones came from the Augsburg workshop of G.B. Probst. He produced ca. 400 of them, not only views of places, but also a variety of other subject matters. While most prints of this genre were loudly and heavily colored, a small series was left black and white, truly showing their artistic value beyond the fulfilment of curiosity at fairs.

DONCKER, HENDRICK.

Ca. 1626-99.
HENDRICK DONCKER II (son) c. 1664-c. 1739
Holländsk bokhandlare, bosatt i Amsterdam. Han verkar ha specialiserat sig på böcker för nautiskt bruk och som karthandlare intresserade han sig mest för sjökort. 1660 gav han ut 'De Zee-Atlas ofte Water-wereld' som kom i nyutgåva 1665. 1689 gav han ut en karta över Östersjön. Affären övertogs av sonen Hendrik Doncker (se denne).

For about fifty years Hendrick Doncker ran a flourishing business in Amsterdam as a bookseller and publisher of sea atlases and textbooks on navigation. In a period when so many maps and charts were simply copied from other publishers, Doncker's charts were his own work and were noted for their accuracy and constant improvement. Apart from this work, he cooperated for many years with Pieter Goos and Anthonie Jacobsz in producing a pilot guide De Zeespiegel. Eventually his stock was sold to Johannes van Keulen.
Bland arbeten.
De Zee-Atlas ofte Water-wereld.
Karta över Östersjön.

Kleerkooper. - Phillips.

Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936

Åkervallmo, Papaver dubium - 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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