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EKEBERG, CARL GUSTAF.

Född 1716 10/6 på Djursholms sätesgård i Danderyds sn (Sthlm), död 1784 4/4 på Ältomta i Tensta sn (Upps.).
Kapten vid Amiralitetet och Ostindiska kompaniet. Kopparstickare. Son av befallningsmannen Gustaf E. och Ebba Catharina Fast. Ledamot av Vetenskapsakademien 1761.





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C. G. EKEBERG, Ostindisk resa, åren 1770 och 1771, Sthlm 1773: Charta öfver Gap Godt Hopp, kpst., och Utsigt af Bay Fals, kpst.


Hultmark, 1944.

THERSNER, THORA JOHANNA ULRIKA.


I bredd med våra författarinnor, men på en annan väg producerande, utmärker sig demoiselle Thersner. Ett allmänt kändt och värderadt arbete, 'Svecia Antiqva et Hodierna', utgafs i förra århundradet af grefve Dahlberg, ett dyrbart arbete, som näppeligen i vår tid skulle kunna utgifvas i koppartryck, ehuru det blifvit fortsatt lithografiskt. Det var, redan i början af innevarande århundrade, i det afseendet föråldradt, att efter lång mellankommen tid de teckningar, arbetet gifvit, icke mera svarade mot det nuvarande utseendet, äfvensom en mängd andra märkvärdiga ställen funnos, de der icke i Dahlbergs arbete voro intagna. Konung Carl XIII ansåg att ett nytt arbete, i planen likt det gamla, borde utgifvas, och uppmanade dertill kaptenen (sedermera öfverstelöjtnanten) Ulrik Thersner, som inom geniekorpsen gjort sig känd såsom tecknare. Man anser sig icke behöfva förbigå det denne man väl också gjort sig för öfrigt utmärkt. Såsom kommenderad att vid ingenjörsarbetena biträda general Boje under belägringen för den ...
Bland arbeten.
Fordna och närvarande Sverige


Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor

SCHÜTZENCRANTZ, ADOLF ULRIC.

1802-1854
Tecknare, avancerade som militär till överstelöjtnant, utgav en rad litografiska samlingar såsom de humoristiska 'Scener utur soldatlifvet' (1831-32) samt de kostymhistoriskt värdefulla 'Teckningar af de svenska kongl. ordenscostymerna' 1833) och 'Svenska krigsmaktens fordna och närvarande munderingar' (1849-53, färgtryck).
En samling färglagda teckningar 'Konung Carl XIV Johans hof- och ordenscostumer' (1844), förvaras i Kungl. biblioteket.

Arbetet 'Svenska krigsmaktens fordna och närvarande munderingar' består av 36 kolorerade och litograferade uniformsplanscher. Verket räknas till ett av de bättre uniformsverken i Sverige.
Bland arbeten.
Scener utur soldatlifvet, 1831-32
Teckningar af de svenska kongl. ordenscostymerna, 1833
Svenska krigsmaktens fordna och närvarande munderingar, 1849-53
Konung Carl XIV Johans hof- och ordenscostumer, 1844


(Sv. Uppsl.b. Malmö 1953, bd 25 sp. 672.)


Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936


Riksgrefve von Hallwyl - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1890.

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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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