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...
Vance har även ritat 'The World, on a Globular Projection...'. Stor världskarta graverad av James H. Young och utgiven hos Anthony Finley Philadelphia c:a 1830. Kartan är bara känd i två exemplar.
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Maps in Hart's Modern Atlas 1828.
Massachusetts, Connecticut & Rhode Is. 1825.
Tooley. RdeT
1440-1514. Född och död i Nürnberg.
Tysk läkare och historiker. Studerade först vid universitetet i Leipzig där han år 1459 blev magister. Facken var de vanliga lärdomsämnena. Senare specialiserade han sig på läkarvetenskapen och tog 1466 en medicinsk doktorsgrad i Padua. Efter flera års verksamhet som läkare i olika städer verkade han från 1484 i Nürnberg. Redan som student visade han starkt intresse för historia. Han bedrev bl.a. en betydande samlarverksamhet, speciellt av handskrifter av olika slag och han blev efter hand väl ansedd i ledande humanistkretsar. På uppdrag av den berömde boktryckaren Anton Koburger utarbetade han en världskrönika som kom ut 1493 på latin och tyska, och senare i flera utgåvor. 'Nürnbergerkröniken' är inte något självständigt forskningsarbete utan ett resultat av Schedels samlarverksamhet. Det som är av störst intresse är illustrationerna, som utfördes i träsnitt av Michel Wolgemuth och Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Med sina 1.809 träsnitt är boken det rikast illustrerade tyska verk från 1400-talet.
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Nürnbergerkröniken.
Haitz. - Lex. d. Buchw.
Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
Åkerklätt, Agrostemma githago - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
Knight Leontiy Vassilievich Spafaryev (1765 - 30 January 1847) was a Lieutenant General of the Imperial Russian Navy. Spafaryev was Director of the Lighthouse Administration and cartographer of the Russian Admiralty.
Spafariev was an important contributor to the improvement of navigation along the Russian coasts. The first lighthouses in Russia were built during tsar Peter the Great's drive for reform and modernization at the beginning of the 18th century. However, it was only until the Administration of Lighthouses was created in 1807 that the Russian lighthouse system followed an organized pattern, becoming effective and efficient. This office was established by the Russian Navy and it began under the leadership of Leontiy V. Spafaryev.
As a cartographer, perhaps his most outstanding work is the 'Atlas of the Gulf of Finland', published in 1817. His name is spelt as 'Spafarief' or 'Spafarieff' in the United States.
The Spafaryev Islands in the Sea of Okhotsk and Spafarief Bay in the coast of Alaska were named after Leontiy V. Spafaryev.
Utgav i S:t Petersburg 'Atlas of the Gulf of Finland containing the South Coast, with the Islands from cape Luserort to Cronstadt with Light houses & Towers necessary to be known for sailing by night'. Denna atlas innehåller 12 större kartor varav flera utvikbara. Stor folio.
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Atlas of the Gulf of Finland containing the South Coast, with the Islands from cape Luserort to Cronstadt with Light houses & Towers necessary to be known for sailing by night.
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