1870-1921.
Norsk officer. Han började studera 1888, tog examen vid 'Krigsskolen' 1891, blev 1900 kapten och 1916 major och chef för norska generalstabens kommunikationsavdelning. Under en rad år var han knuten till 'Norges Geografiske Opmaaling' som chef för den topografiska avdelningen. Han gav ut flera rese- och bilkartor över Norge.
Studentene fra 1888. - U.B.
CANTEMIR, PRINCE CONSTANTIN DIMITRI.
1673-1723.
Cartographer in Russian service.
Bland arbeten.
Moldavia 1716.
Constantinople 1720.
A contemporary unsigned English mezzotint portrait exists.
Tooley.
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
Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.
'Skagerrak. Östra delen.' - Stockholm 1945.
