The first Buddhist world map printed in Japan and the prototype for all subsequent Buddhist world maps printed in Japan until the late nineteenth century. The author, Hotan (1654-1728) was a scholar-priest and founder of the Kegonji Temple in Kyoto. The earliest known example in Japan is the Gotenjiku Zu (Map of the Five Indies) by the priest Jukai dating from 1364 and now preserved in Horyuji Temple in Nara. However Hotan’s map was revolutionary in being the first printed Oriental map to introduce detailed Western cartographic information into this traditional Buddhist cosmological view and attempt to merge the two together into a comprehensible form. Europe is depicted as a series of islands in the upper left of the image whilst South America is likewise another island in the lower right of the image. Africa is omitted completely. China and Japan are clearly defined in the upper right of the map. The popularity of the map is evidenced by the fact that although the map is dated 1710, it was reissued unchange...
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Nantanbushu Bankoku Shoka No Zu [Map of the Universe as a result] [Kyoto: Uhei Bundaiken, Hoei 7 (1710)]
Sotheby's. Murogo & Unno, “The Buddhist World Map in Japan” in /M Xvi (1962); H. Cortazzi, “Island of gold, p.38 pl.48; Harley & Woodward, “The History of Cartography, 2.2, pp. 428ff and Fig. 11.59; Nanba, “Old Maps of Japan, p. 179 pl.8; K. Yamashita, “Japanese Maps of the Edo Period, pp. 32-33 ill.1.
1678-1757. Född och död i Augsburg.
Tysk kartograf, son till en guldsmed. Hans föräldrar ville att han skulle bli ölbryggare men han såg till att bli lärling i kartgravering hos J.B. Homann i Nürnberg 1697. Efter lärlingstiden återvände Seutter till sin hemstad Augsburg och började arbeta hos Jeremias Wolff på dennes förlag. Från och med år 1707 arbetade han självständigt som kartgravör i Augsburg. 1710 började han ge ut kartor under eget namn och 1728 var han en namnkunnig kartograf. 1730/1732 fick han titeln 'Kaiserlicher Geograph', kejserlig geograf. Totalt skapade Seutter och hans medhjälpare uppemot 400-500 landskartor, stadsplaner och översikter, genealogiska och kronologiska tabeller m.m.. Av atlasverk kom 'Atlas geographicus' 1725 med 46 kartor, 'Atlas novus indicibus instructus' kom ca. 1730 i Augsburg och Wien. En utökad utgåva av den senare med 131 kartor kom 1734/1735 och slutligen utkom ca. 1744 en 'Atlas minor' med 64 kartor i ett mindre format. I atlasen från 1734/1735 delade Seutter upp kartorna i rutor och lät utarbeta stadsreg...
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- Atlas Geographicus oder Accurate Vorstellung der Ganzen Welt, 1725
- Atlas Compendiosus oder die ganze Welt in den nothwendigsten Geographischen Charten
- Atlas Compendiosus Scholasticus
- Atlas Novus Indicubus Instructus, 1728
- Grosser Atlas, 1734
- Atlas Minor, 1744
SEUTTER, M. Nova et accurata delineatio Ingriae et Careliae... Matthaeus Seutter,... Aug. Vind. [engraved map]. Augsburg, [c.1744].
The Seutter edition of the Grimmel map of Carelia and Ingria.
SEUTTER, M. Teshenije Nevy reky... = Fluwius Newa e lacu Ladoga Petropolin... [engraved map] Augsburg, [c.1744].
The Seutter-version of the Grimmel map of Ingria. [Kartan över Neva från Ladoga till St Petersburg].
Allg. d. Biogr. Christian Sandler: Seutter, Matthäus. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, S. 70–72. Christian Sandler: Matthäus Seutter (1678–1757) und seine Landkarten. 3. Reprintauflage. Bad Langensalza: Verlag Rockstuhl, 2009 (1. Auflage: 1894). ISBN 978-3-936030-03-7 Peter H. Meurer: Das Druckprivileg für Matthäus Seutter. In: Cartographica Helvetica Heft 8 (1993) S. 32–36 Volltext Michael Ritter: Die Augsburger Landkartenverlage Seutter, Lotter und Probst. In: Cartographica Helvetica Heft 25 (2002) S. 2–10 Volltext
(c. 1596, Neuhausen, – 1665, Hoorn)
Cellarius was a Dutch-German cartographer, best known for his Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1660, a major star atlas, published by Johannes Janssonius in Amsterdam.
He was born in Neuhausen (now a part of Worms), and was educated in Heidelberg. The Protestant Cellarius may have left Heidelberg at the onset of the Thirty Years' War in 1618 or in 1622 when the city came in Catholic hands. His activities are unclear at this time but based on his later works it is conjectured he spent time in Poland and may have even worked as a military engineer there. In 1625 he married Catharina Elt(e)mans in Amsterdam, where he worked as school master of a Latin School. After a brief stay in The Hague, the family moved to Hoorn. From 1637 until his death he was rector of the Latin School in Hoorn, where Pieter Anthoniszoon Overtwater was conrector.
He published on fortification and on Poland.
The minor planet 12618 Cellarius is named in his honour.
Andreas Cellarius
The Dutch-German mathematician and cosmogr...
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Harmonia macrocosmica sea atlas universalis et novus. Amsterdam: G. Valck and P. schenk, 1708.
Folio (530 x 320mm), allegorical title engraved by F. H. van Hoven, printed in red and black with woodcut vignette, letterpress title with contents and 29 double-page engraved cosmographical charts finely coloured by hand, without text.
One of the most fascinating achievement from the golden age of Dutch cartography. The Harmonia macrocosmica is the only atlas of the period dealing with astronomy.
Unlike the late celestial atlases, the Cellarius charts demonstrated various ancient and contemporary cosmological ideas, rather than just the names and positions of the stars. The purpose of the book was to assess different attempts to discover the underlying harmony of the universe. The charts represent the highest levels of seventeenth-century astronomical thought, with the diagram showing aspects of the three great theories on the nature of the universe; the Ptolemaic, the Copernican and the Brahean.
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
'Östersjön södra delen.' - Stockholm 1883.
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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