Often called 'Donis' from a misapprehension of the title 'Donnus' or 'Donus' an abbreviated form of 'Dominus.
A fifteenth-century cartographer, place of birth, and date of birth and death unknown. The first allusion to him of authentic date is an injunction of Duke Borso d'Este (15 March, 1466) to his referendary and privy counselor, Ludovico Casella, at Ferrara, to have the 'Cosmographia of Don Nicolò' thoroughly examined and then to determine a recompense for it. The duke, on the thirtieth of the same month, called upon his treasurers for 100 florins in gold 'to remit as a mark of his appreciation to Donnus Nicolaus Germanus for his excellent book entitled 'Cosmographia''. On 8 April, 1466, the duke again drew thirty golden florins to present to the Rev. Nicolaus, who 'in addition to that excellent Cosmography' (ultra illud excellens Cosmographie opus) had dedicated to the duke a calendar made to cover many years to come ('librum tacuini multorum annorum'). The 'Cosmographia' as preserved in the Biblioth...
FISCHER, Nicolaus Germanus in Entdeckungen der Normannen in Amerika (Freiburg, 1902), 75-90, 113 sqq. (Eng. tr., London, 1903), 72-86, 108 sqq.
1537-87.
Son till Gerard Mercator. Arbetade med sin bror Rumold (se denne) i fadern Gerard Mercators (se denne) företag.
16 april 1822 - 25 september 1878.
August Heinrich Petermann, född 16 april 1822 i Bleicherode, Sachsen, död genom självmord 25 september 1878 i Gotha, var en tysk kartograf och geograf.
Petermann arbetade 1839-45 vid Heinrich Berghaus kartografiska institut i Potsdam, där han huvudsakligen sysslade med Berghaus 'Physikalischer Atlas'. Han tecknade även kartor till skrifter av Alexander von Humboldt. År 1845 begav han sig till Edinburgh för att biträda Alexander Keith Johnston vid den engelska bearbetningen av nämnda atlas och grundlade 1847 i London en kartografisk anstalt. År 1854 anställdes han hos Justus Perthes i Gotha och utgav sedan 1855 'Mitteilungen aus Justus Perthes geographischer Anstalt', vilken tidskrift, vanligen kallad 'Petermanns Mitteilungen', blev ett centralorgan för den geografiska vetenskapen.
Som kartograf utmärkte Petermann sig genom ett omsorgsfullt och kritiskt arbete med de mest skilda källor. Särskild kända är hans stora karta över det inre Afrika, hans karta i sex blad över USA samt hans karta i nio blad över...
Bland arbeten.
'Mitteilungen aus Justus Perthes geographischer Anstalt'
'Physikalischer Atlas'
'Stieler'
Nordisk Familjebok.
Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.
Witte von Schwanenberg - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1900.
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.
Bland arbeten:
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.
- Se bild.
