d'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon
Born in Paris July 11, 1697 – died January 28, 1782.
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (born in Paris July 11, 1697 – January 28, 1782), was both a geographer and cartographer who greatly improved the standards of map-making. His maps of ancient geography, characterized by careful, accurate work and based largely on original research, are especially valuable. He left unknown areas of continents blank and noted doubtful information as such; compared to the lavish maps of his predecessors, his maps looked empty.
Work
D'Anville's map of China and Central Asia (1734) for du Halde's 'Description geographique de la Chine', compiled based on the first systematic geographic survey of the entire Chinese Empire by a team of French Jesuits (ca. 1700)
His passion for geographical research displayed itself from early years: at age of twelve he was already amusing himself by drawing maps for Latin authors. Later, his friendship with the antiquarian, Abbé Longuerue, greatly aided his studies.
His first serious map, that of Ancient Greece, was published when ...
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Pere J. B. du Halde with maps by d'Anville, 'Description geographique de la Chine', 1735.
'Nouvel Atlas de la Chine', 1737.
'Atlas Generale', circa 1740.
'Geographie Ancienne et Abregee', 1769.
1552-1612.
Vrients was the map engraver and publisher in Antwerp who, after the death of Ortelius in 1598, acquired the publication rights of the Theatrum. Between 1601 and 1612 he issued a number of editions which included some of his own maps and he was responsible for printing the maps for the English edition in 1606. He also published a number of important individual maps and a small atlas of the Netherlands.
1489-1552.
Tysk kosmograf. Född i Ingelheim i Hessen, död i Basel. Studerade matematik, teologi och klassiska språk i Heidelberg och Tübingen. Blev senare fransiskanermunk och föreläste vid olika läroanstalter tills han 1529 utnämndes till professor i hebreiska vid universitetet i Basel. Münster bedrev ett betydande författarskap och hade rykte om sig som den tidens mest lärde, speciellt när det gällde hebreisk litteratur. I hans klassiska studier hade även matematik och kosmografi en naturlig plats. Hans första geografiska verk, som publicerades 1530, var ett band med upplysningar till en nyutgåva av en gammal Tysklandskarta, utarbetad av kardinal Nicolas Cusanus (se denne). 1532 slutförde han ett större kartverk: 'Typus Cosmographicus Universalis'. Senare följde 'Geographia Universalis, Vetus et Nova', (5 utgåvor 1540-52) och 'Cosmographia, Beschreibung aller Lender' (1544, och en rad senare utgåvor). Böckerna är rikt illustrerade med kartor, stadskartor och andra textillustrationer i träsnitt. Det är framförallt dess...
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Typus Cosmographicus Universalis.
Geographia Universalis, Vetus et Nova.
Cosmographia, Beschreibung aller Lender.
Allg. d. Biogr. - Bagrow. Sveriges sjökartor - A. Hedin.
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
Olvon, Viburnum opulus - 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.
- Se bild.
