Född 1732 15/1 i Valsberga, Åkers sn (Söd.), död 1797 4/11 på Bråtorp i ovann. sn.
Kommissionslantmätare. Kartgravör. Son av kronolänsmannen Olof Å. och Maria Ekström. Student vid Uppsala universitet 1754. Blev sedan enligt egen utsago »informator hos löjtnant Ridderhjerta, dels ock vid Kungsör hos slottsinspektoren Jesper Petrseus att informera dess dotterson Jesper Gillberg, hvarmed fortsattes till 1756. År 1757 antog jag station hos akademigravören Åkerman, hvilken jag hjälpte med gravyr af bokstäfver, så att jag fanns skicklig gravera alla namn, som stå på den första här i riket utgifna jordgloben med en fots diameter, fast jag ej fick hedern att mitt namn sattes på globen» (EKSTRAND). Kommissionslantmätare 1781. Ägde Bråtorp.
Bland arbeten.
A. BERCH, Oeconomisk beskrifning öfver Wadsbo härad uti Westergöthland och Skaraborgs höfdingedöme, diss., resp. G. F. Bergman, Uppsala 1759: karta över Vadsbo härad.
Karta över Tveta härad i Småland. 17601.
Stockholms magazin, 1780: striden vid Brunnbäck jämte karta över Grytnäs och Folkärna socknar, efter G. Halstenson 1652.
Svenskarna under Wilhelm Carpelan förstöra den preussiska flottiljen i Frisches Haff 1759, efter C. Rutensparre, kpst.
Hultmark, 1944.
1655-1694.
Direktör för lantmäteriet, tog initiativet till den första svenska Generalkartan.
At the age of 28, appointed director (later director-general) for the National Land Survey. Offices were a room at the royal palace, 'but in autumn, winter and spring, maps never could be stored there because of the moisture, snow and rain that drift in through the leaky walls'. Wrote poetry with same success - 200 years later the works were deemed 'currently unpalatable'. In the early 1690s worked on Stockholm's Outer archipelago, until then poorly represented on charts. For security reasons, the lise of maps was restricted. His maps first round real use a hundred years later as underpinning for Sweden's Marine Atlas (Sveriges Sjöatlas).
Bland arbeten.
Sveriges Sjöatlas.
Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.
1562-1622.
Plancius was a theologian and minister of the Dutch Reformed Church who fled with many of his compatriots from religious persecution in Flanders to settle in Amsterdam in 1585. There he became interested in navigation and cartography and, being fortunate enough to have access to nautical charts recently brought from Portugal, he was soon recognized as an expert on the shipping routes to India. He was interested, too, in the idea of a North East passage until the failure of Willem Barentsz's third voyage in 1597 seemed to preclude the possibility of such a route. In 1602 he was appointed cartographer to the new Dutch East India Company.
Although Plancius produced no atlases his individual maps and charts, over 100 in all, exercised much influence on the work of other cartographers at the turn of the century. His very large wall map of the world dated 1592 was of particular significance.
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
Gorée, karta över ön och fortet. - J. N. Bellin, 1740-talet.
