SÖK KARTOGRAFER, GRAVÖRER M.FL.

BRY, JOH. ISRAEL de.

Död 1611.
Tysk kopparstickare, son till kopparstickaren Theodore de Bry (se denne). Han samarbetade med sin far och bror Johann Theodore de Bry (se denne), bl.a. med verket 'India Orientalis' som kom i flera band omkring 1599 och i senare utgåvor.
Bland arbeten.
India Orientalis.

Thieme-Becker. - Wieder.

SPAFARIEFF, Leonty

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...
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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.

ANDERSIN, A.

Lantmätare. Det blev först under 1670-talet som riksråden i Stockholm blev ordentligt medvetna om nödvändigheten av en genomgripande kartläggning utförd av lantmätare i de erövrade Östersjöprovinserna. Denna hade dittills skötts utifrån Riga. Men 1678 inrättades ett kontor i Narva. Genom att det delade lokalitet med fortifikationskåren, kom karteringen av hela området kring Finska vikens inre mot Ladoga att ske blandat civilt och militärt. Resultatet av denna gemensamma ansträngning blev en stor karta över Kexholms län - Ingermanland, som i dess slutliga, av lantmätaren A. Andersin renritade, skepnad visades på utställningen genom Kungl. Bibliotekets försorg. Denna karta från 1699 lät tsar Peter snabbt överföra till kopparstick av Adriaan Schoonebeck 1704.



Bland arbeten.
Karta Kexholms län - Ingermanland.

Kart & Bildteknik 2003:3, artikel Från Nyen till Hiddensee. Svensk kartläggning under 1600-talet. Av Ulla Ehrensvärd.

Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.

Danmark. - Blaeu 1643/44.

WAGHENAER, LUCAS JANSZOON.

Holländsk kartograf i slutet av 1500-talet. Efter att ha vunnit ett rykte som erfaren skeppare och lots började han som den förste i världen med att ge ut en sjökartsatlas. Den kom ut 1584-85 under titeln 'Spiegel der Zee-Vaerdt'. Den kom senare i en rad utgåvor på olika språk. 1592 följdes den av 'Tresoor der Zee-Vaert'. Dessa två verk var epokgörande inom sjökartografins område och namnet 'Waghenaer' var under en lång tid synonymt med bra sjökort. Han gav även ut en översiktsplan och en karta över sin hemstad Enkhuysen.

By the third quarter of the sixteenth century an ever increasing volume of the wealth of the New World and the Indies was reaching Lisbon and the Spanish ports, there to be trans-shipped to Northern and Western Europe. This trade was almost entirely in the hands of the Dutch so it was logical that one of their pilots should produce the first set of effective navigational charts. These were compiled under the title Spiegel der Zeevaerdt, by Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer, a native of Enkhuizen on the Zuider Zee, an experienced seaman and pilot. His magnificently produced charts embodying all the latest contemporary knowledge of navigation and position-finding set a standard which was followed by others for the next century or more -indeed, some of the symbols employed are still in use today. The charts in the first edition, covering the coast lines from Holland to Spain and the North Sea and Baltic, were engraved by the van Doetecum brothers and printed by Plantin: those in the English edition, which was translated by Sir Anthony Ashley and issued in 1588 - the year of the Armada - were engraved by de Bry, Hondius, Rutlinger and Ryther, who also engraved some of Saxton's maps. The charts are extremely picturesque with elaborate cartouches, ships in full sail and the sea monsters so commonly used as decoration in maps of the period. Place names are given on the coasts but comparatively few are shown inland; cliffs on the coastline are drawn in elevation; navigational landmarks and hazards, anchorages, soundings and tidal details are indicated and the scale is shown in English, Spanish and Dutch leagues. Altogether some of the most handsome maps ever produced.
The charts became so universally popular that their name, anglicized to 'Waggoner', came into use in English as a generic term for sea charts of all kinds.
Bland arbeten:
Spiegel der Zee-Vaerdt.
Tresoor der Zee-Vaert.
(Nederl. biogr. - Nissen. - Phillips.)

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