1720-1804. Född och död i Gran.
Norsk ämbetsman och naturhistoriker. Började 1738 att studera och läste olika ämnen under ett antal år. 1750 blev han anställd av den stora bok- och kartsamlaren greve Joh. L. Holstein för att måla grevskapet Ledreborg vid Roskilde. 1752 utnämnd till generalkonduktör vid Akershus stift. Han hade titeln kansliråd, senare justitieråd. Medlem av 'Det kgl. Videnskabers Selskab' i Trondheim och 'Det kgl. danske Landhusholdningsselskab'. - Av hans författarskap, som framförallt omfattar naturhistoriska avhandlingar, kan nämnas 'Indbydelse til de Norske Karter', en uppfodring att sända honom kartor och dokument som stöd för ett påtänkt norskt kartverk (1766), samt 'Subscriptions Plan Till En Norsk Atlas eller Land-Beskrivelse over Kongeriget Norge' (1773). Detta verk blev emellertid aldrig utgivet. Sina samlingar, däribland en betydande kartsamling, och en stor del av sin förmögenhet testamenterade han till 'Videnskabsselskabet' i Trondheim.
Bland arbeten.
Subscriptions Plan Till En Norsk Atlas eller Land-Beskrivelse over Kongeriget Norge.
Indbydelse til de Norske Karter.
Ehrencron.
Kâtip Çelebi, Mustafa bin Abdullah, Haji Khalifa or Kalfa, (1609, Istanbul – 1657 Istanbul)
Kâtip Celebi was an Ottoman scholar. A historian and geographer, he is regarded as one of the most productive authors of non-religious scientific literature in the 17th century Ottoman Empire. Among his best-known works is the Kashf al-?un?n ‘an as?m? al-kutub wa-al-fun?n, ('The Removal of Doubt from the Names of Books and the Arts'), a bibliographic encyclopaedia, written in Arabic, which lists more than 14,500 books in alphabetic order.
Life and works
The son of a soldier, he himself was a soldier for ten years until a heritage made him turn to a more contemplative life. As the accountant of the commissariat department of the Ottoman Army in Anatolia, he accompanied the Ottoman army in the campaign against Baghdad in 1625, was present at the siege of Erzurum, and returned to Istanbul in 1628. In the following year he was again in Baghdad and Hamadan, and in 1633-34 at Aleppo, whence he made the pilgrimage to Mecca (hence his title Hajji). The following year he was in Erivan and then returned to Consta...
Bland arbeten.
Cihannüma (The mirror of the world) Constantinople, Ibrahim Müteferrika, 1732. First edition.
This is the second work by Kâtip Celebi published in 1729. The author was a well known writer on history and geography and a bibliophile and in this work intended to publish a universal system of geography. In fact only part of the work (including the description of Asia Minor) was completed by Kâtip who used European and Arabic and Persian sources, and the whole was supplemented and edited by Ibrahim, who dedicated it to the grand vizir of Sultan Mahmud II, Ali Pasha.
The picture is showing the map of the Indian Ocean and the China Sea that was engraved in 1728 by the Hungarian-born Ottoman cartographer and publisher Ibrahim Müteferrika; it is one of a series that illustrated Katip Çelebi’s Cihannuma (Universal Geography), the first printed book of maps and drawings to appear in the Islamic world.
1540-1603.
Theologian, physician and cartographer of Halle.
Bland arbeten.
Thuringia 1568,
Mansfeld 1571,
Limburg 1593, used later by Hondius & Blaeu.
Plans of Halle & Hildesheim for Braun & Hogenberg 1598.
Tooley.
Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.
Stenbynke, Artemisia Rupestris L - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
