Springer, Johann Christoph Erich von.
Bland arbeten.
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.
DELAROCHETTE, LOUIS STANISLAS D'ARCY.
Engelsk kartograf i slutet av 1700-talet. Han gav själv inte ut någon atlas men ritade kartor åt flera kartförläggare, t.ex. Thomas Jefferys (se denne) och Robert Sayer (se denne) 1768 och på 1790-talet för William Faden (se denne) och firman Laurie & Whittle. För de sistnämnde arbetade han även som hydrograf. Så sent som 1852 tog J. Wyld (se denne) med ett antal av hans kartor i sin atlas.
Phillips.
Middleton, previously a captain in the employ of The Hudson Bay Company, was financed by Arthur Dobbs to explore the north-western extremities of Hudson Bay in search of a north-western passage. The expedition, from 1741-42, should have disproved notions of such a passage, but the increasingly delusional Dobbs convinced himself that Middleton had deliberately falsified his findings, and mounted an attack on the captain’s integrity, using a series of rather dubious maps distorted to support his viewpoint.
Middleton’s chart over Hudson Bay, published before the eruption of the controversy, is of great importance as the attempt at an accurate survey of the west coast of Hudson Bay (Cumming et al, Exploration of North America, p. 188), and the only reliable printed cartographic record of the captain’s discoveries. Surprisingly, the chart was not included in Middleton’s book defending his reputation, and is now rare.
Bland arbeten.
Hudson Bay.
Sotheby's
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
af Wasaborg - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1900.
