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...
1573-1635. Född i Tournon dans le Vivarais, död i Paris.
Fransk författare. Blev i ung ålder ett känt namn i de litterära kretsarna i Paris och gav 1599 ut en diktsamling och ett epigram. Senare vigde han sitt liv åt militärtjänsten. Hans viktigaste verk, 'Estats et Empires du Monde'), utkom 1626. Det blev översatt till latin med titeln 'Archonontologia cosmica' och behöll denna titel i en rad utgåvor på olika språk. Vidare kan nämnas 'Origines de tous les Ordres Militaires' 1635. (Nouv. biogr. gen.)
Bland arbeten.
Estats et Empires du Monde. (Archonontologia cosmica).
Origines de tous les Ordres Militaires.
Bland arbeten.
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
'Aevi veteris, typus geographicus' - Ortelius 1590.
