1616-75.
Holländsk kartograf. Utmärkte sig som kopparstickare och verkade som sådan i Amsterdam, men är först och främst känd för sina sjökartverk. 'De Lichtende Colomne ofte Zee-Spiegel' som kom ut i 12 utgåvor 1654-88, och 'Zee-Atlas ofte Waer-Weerelt' som kom ut i 16 utgåvor under 10 år (1666-76). Som förläggare gav han ut ett flertal verk om navigation och besläktade ämnen.
Dutch cartographer and copperplate engraver based in Amsterdam. Famous for his marine maps in De Lichtende Colomne ofle Zee-Spiegel published 1654-88, and Zee-Atlas ofle Waer-Wereld published 1666-76. Goos also produced works on navigation.
Abraham Goos son, Pieter, continued and extended his father's business and became one of the group of well-known engravers of sea charts active in Amsterdam in the middle years of the seventeenth century. In common with Colom, Doncker and Jacobsz he published a pilot guide, the Zee-Spiegel, basing it on plates obtained from Jacobsz. This went through many editions in different languages under ...
Bland arbeten.
De Lichtende Colomne ofte Zee-Spiegel.
Zee-Atlas ofte Waer-Weerelt.
Nederl. biogr., X. - Wieder. Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.
1653-1715.
In 1680 was given special endorsement from the Dutch state to print and publish sea charts and sailing instructions. The van Keulen family's best-known work is Nieuwe Groote Ligtende Zee-Fakkel a world atlas in five volumes, published by Johannes's son Gerard and subsequently by Gerard's children and grandchildren.
As we have noted in other biographies in this chapter, the Dutch produced a remarkable number of enterprising and prolific map and chart makers but not even the Blaeu and Jansson establishments could rival the vigour of the van Keulen family whose business was founded in 1680 and continued under their name until 1823 and in other names until 1885 when it was finally wound up and the stock dispersed at auction. Throughout the history of the family, the widows of several of the van Keulens played a major part, after their husbands' deaths, in maintaining the continuity of the business.
The firm was founded by Johannes van Keulen who was registered as a bookseller in Amsterdam in 1678. In 16...
Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.
1684-1755. Född i Colditz, Sachsen, död i Göttingen.
Tysk historiker. Från 1703 studerade han teologi, språk och historia i Wittenberg. 1710 blev han professor i logik och 1714 i historia vid universitetet i Altdorf. 1735 blev han tillsatt som professor i historia vid det nyupprättade universitetet i Göttingen. Förutom flera historiska verk gav han bl.a. ut 'Bequemer Schulund Reisen-Atlas' (1719) och en 'Atlas manualis' (ca. 1724).
Bland arbeten.
Bequemer Schulund Reisen-Atlas.
Atlas manualis.
Allg. d. Biogr. - Ph.
Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
Springkorn, Impatiens noli tangere - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
