1563-1610.
Van Linschoten, born in Haarlem, is heard of in the service of the Portuguese Archbishop of Goa where he spent five years between 1583 and 1588. On his return to Holland he produced a History of his travels, important for the inclusion of maps from Portuguese sources, at that time rarely available to Dutch - or any other - cartographers. The maps (including a world map by Petrus Plancius) engraved by van Langren, are highly decorative with large cartouches, the arms of Portugal, compass roses, rhumb lines and sea monsters. Some are illustrated with views of prominent places or islands.
Cassini de Thury, César-François
17 June 1714 – 4 September 1784
César-François Cassini de Thury (17 June 1714 – 4 September 1784), also called Cassini III or Cassini de Thury, was a French astronomer and cartographer.
Cassini de Thury was born in Thury-sous-Clermont (Oise), the second son of Jacques Cassini and Suzanne Françoise Charpentier de Charmois. He was a grandson of Giovanni Domenico Cassini, and would become the father of Jean-Dominique Cassini, Comte de Cassini.
In 1735, he became a member of the French Academy of Sciences as a supernumerary adjunct astronomer, in 1741 as an adjunct astronomer, and in 1745 as a full member astronomer.
In January, 1751 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
He succeeded to his father’s official position in 1756 and continued the hereditary surveying operations. In 1744, he began the construction of a great topographical map of France, one of the landmarks in the history of cartography. Completed by his son Jean-Dominique, Cassini IV and published by the Académie des Sciences from 1744 to 1793, its 180 plates ar...
1802-1854
Tecknare, avancerade som militär till överstelöjtnant, utgav en rad litografiska samlingar såsom de humoristiska 'Scener utur soldatlifvet' (1831-32) samt de kostymhistoriskt värdefulla 'Teckningar af de svenska kongl. ordenscostymerna' 1833) och 'Svenska krigsmaktens fordna och närvarande munderingar' (1849-53, färgtryck).
En samling färglagda teckningar 'Konung Carl XIV Johans hof- och ordenscostumer' (1844), förvaras i Kungl. biblioteket.
Arbetet 'Svenska krigsmaktens fordna och närvarande munderingar' består av 36 kolorerade och litograferade uniformsplanscher. Verket räknas till ett av de bättre uniformsverken i Sverige.
Bland arbeten.
Scener utur soldatlifvet, 1831-32
Teckningar af de svenska kongl. ordenscostymerna, 1833
Svenska krigsmaktens fordna och närvarande munderingar, 1849-53
Konung Carl XIV Johans hof- och ordenscostumer, 1844
(Sv. Uppsl.b. Malmö 1953, bd 25 sp. 672.)
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
Karta öfver Gottland eller Wisby höfdingdöme. - Hermelin 1805.
