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Biografier.

Dupuy de Bordes, Henri-Sébastien


Bland arbeten.
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.

NAGAEV, ALEKSEI IVANOVICH.

1704-1781.
Rysk amiral. Nagaev skickades 1715 till Marinakademin i St Petersburg där han sex år senare blev underofficer. Redan efter några månader började Nagaev undervisa kadetter och detta pågick fram till 1724 på Kronstadt och sedan på Marinakademin i St Petersburg fram till 1729. Under dessa år hann Nagaev även med att övervaka arbetena på en kanal i Kronstadt. År 1723 publicerades tre nya sjökort i tredje upplagan av ryska sjöatlasen över Östersjön vilka Nagaev och I. L. Lyuberas hade uppmätt. Dessa är de första ryskproducerade sjökorten i den första ryska sjöatlasen över Östersjön. De två tidigare utgåvorna var i sin helhet kopior av Geddas svenska sjöatlas. Efter att mellan 1729 och 1733 karterat Kaspiska havet runt Astrakhan återvände Nagaev 1735 till St Petersburg. Åren 1741-42 förde Nagaev befäl på två resor mellan Arkangelsk och St Petersburg. På den andra resan sjönk hans fartyg och Nagaev ställdes inför rätta men frikändes och återinsattes i tjänst. Efter Vitus Berings död så sändes Nagaev iväg till Kamcha...

Plancius, Petrus.

1562-1622.
Plancius was a theologian and minister of the Dutch Reformed Church who fled with many of his compatriots from religious persecution in Flanders to settle in Amsterdam in 1585. There he became interested in navigation and cartography and, being fortunate enough to have access to nautical charts recently brought from Portugal, he was soon recognized as an expert on the shipping routes to India. He was interested, too, in the idea of a North East passage until the failure of Willem Barentsz's third voyage in 1597 seemed to preclude the possibility of such a route. In 1602 he was appointed cartographer to the new Dutch East India Company.
Although Plancius produced no atlases his individual maps and charts, over 100 in all, exercised much influence on the work of other cartographers at the turn of the century. His very large wall map of the world dated 1592 was of particular significance.


Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.


Faxell - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1900.

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Dudley Chase, Ernest.

Pictorial maps - maps with vignette illustrations on top of the geographical content - go back practically to the known beginning of cartographic history: Petroglyph maps dating from the Neolithic sometimes are found combining geographic features with representations of animals, people or dwellings.

Vignette insets or overlays are also found throughout the period of printed maps. But maps richly overlaid with small pictures are more commonly found from the 19th century onwards. (A notable exception is the Carta Marina of Olaus Magnus, published in Venice in 1539, which presents a depiction of Scandinavia with more than 100 small woodcut illustrations of animals, real and imagined, and of people pursuing all kinds of activities, such as hunting, fishing, skiing, etc.)

Ernest Dudley Chase was an exceptional creator of pictorial maps. Though he worked primarily as a graphic artist and businessman in the greeting card industry, Chase also designed, drew, and self-published more than 50 pictorial maps, each densely packed with detailed vignettes reflecting the areas portrayed. In this map of the United States, each state's capitol building is shown, as well as many other vignettes of buildings, famous sights (e.g. Niagra Falls, Hoover Dam) and pictures of people pursuing outdoor activities (fishing, horseback riding, panning for gold, etc.) appropriate to the particular region. In addition to the vignettes in the body of the map, there are 32 vignettes drawn in the blank areas outside the country's borders, mostly showing famous buildings, and 4 vignettes in the corners showing symbols of the country's natural bounty: a bull's head, a longhorn sheep's head, a sheaf of wheat, and a branch from a cotton plant.

Most of Chase's maps display a sense of humor. Though this map is mostly serious and respectful in its portrayal of the United States, the humor creeps in from time to time, such as the small collection of broken hearts outside of Reno, Nevada.

Since Chase published and sold his maps on his own, many of them bear his manuscript signature, as can be seen in the bottom margin, at the left, in this example.

In March, 2003 the Harvard Map Collection presented an exhibit of the pictorial maps of Ernest Dudley Chase, curated by Joseph Garver. The Boston Map Society met on the opening night, and the members were given a guided tour of the exhibit.

To see more online images of Chase's maps, click here to go to the Harvard Library online catalogue (Hollis), enter 'Ernest Dudley Chase' in the 'Search For' field, and click 'Search'. Follow the 'Internet Links' to see images for the individual maps.
Bland arbeten:
A Pictorial Map of North America 1945.
A Pictorial Map of South America 1942.

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