1637-1697.
Kartograf och biskop i Skálholt. Barnbarn till Gudbrandur Thorlaksson, troligen på fädernet. Intresserad av astronomi och geografi vilket återspeglas i de astronomiska bilder han gjorde samt i de kartor över Island som han producerade, bland annat en manuskriptkarta från 1670. Thorlaksson gav även ut den första tryckta upplagan av Landnámabók 1688.
Han var gift med Gudridur Gisladottir.
Bland arbeten.
Kopierade 'Norse map' och ritade 'Stars' 1668, använd av Torfaeus 'Gronlandia antiqua' 1706.
'Island' 1670, manuskript.
Keere, Pieter van den [Kaerius, Petrus]
1571-c. 1646.
Pieter van den Keere was one of a number of refugees who fled from religious persecution in the Low Countries between the years 1570 and 1 590. He moved to London in 1584 with his sister who married Jodocus Hondius, also a refugee there, and through Hondius he undoubtedly learned his skills as an engraver and cartographer. In the course of a long working life he engraved a large number of individual maps for prominent cartographers of the day but he also produced an Atlas of the Netherlands (1617-22) and county maps of the British Isles which have become known as Miniature Speeds, a misnomer which calls for some explanation.
In about 1599 he engraved plates for 44 maps of the English and Welsh counties, the regions of Scotland and the Irish provinces. The English maps were based on Saxton, the Scottish on Ortelius and the Irish on the famous map by Boazio. These maps were not published at once in book form but there is evidence which suggests a date of issue (in Amsterdam) between 1605 and 1610 although at...
Fransk ingenjör och geograf under slutet av 1700-talet. Han gav 1765 ut 'Tableau périodique du monde, ou la Géographie raisoneé et critique', 1766 'Atlas général, civil et ecclésiastique', samt under åren som följde en rad andra atlaser och geografiska verk. Hans sista verk, 'Atlas géographique et statistique de la France' utkom 1803.
Bland arbeten.
Tableau périodique du monde, ou la Géographie raisoneé et critique.
Atlas général, civil et ecclésiastique.
Atlas géographique et statistique de la France.
Nouv. biogr. gen.
Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936
Lusatia Superior. - Amsterdam ca 1725.
