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HEITMAN, JOHAN HANSSON.

1664-1740. Född i Trondheim, död i Köpenhamn.
Norsk skeppare, författare och kartograf. Han tillbringade sin ungdom i Nordland i Norge där han drev jordbruk och affärer. Kom till Bergen där han lärde sig navigation. Fick snart rykte om sig som en framstående sjöman med stora kunskaper om norska kusten. Vice ståthållaren Fr. Gabel gav honom i uppdrag att kartlägga den norska kusten. I flera år sysselsatte han sig med detta. Kartverket blev aldrig utgivet. Kartan över Oslofjorden blev emellertid upptagen i van Keulens atlas, och det är också troligt att hans originalteckningar ligger till grund för andra holländska sjökort som kom ut under den tiden. Heitmann var i övrigt en allsidig man. Ett tag var han bosatt i Christiania (Oslo) som 'mathematicus'. Utgav där en andaktsbok och en psalmbok för sjömän. Efter hans död kom en meteorologisk skrift, 'Physiske Betaenkninger over Solens Varme, Luftens Skarpe Kuld og Nord-Lyset' (1741) ut och året därpå: 'Eenfoldige Betaenkninger over den Julianske og Gregorianske Calender'. Han lade här fram ett förslag till en ...
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Physiske Betaenkninger over Solens Varme, Luftens Skarpe Kuld og Nord-Lyset.
Eenfoldige Betaenkninger over den Julianske og Gregorianske Calender.

N. biogr. leks.

HÄLLSTRÖM, CARL PETTER.

1774-1836.
Appointed engineer at the Survey Office in 1801, but was not eligible for salary until a permanent position became vacant. In 1809 was commissioned lieutenant at the marine measurement corps and made supervisor at the Sea Charts Office. Known for his skill and great modesty.

Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.

MASSA [MASSART, MASSAERT], ISAAC.

Baptized October 7, 1586 in Haarlem, died 1643.
Dutch cartographer and traveller to Moscow.
Isaac Abrahamszoon Massa was a Dutch grain trader, traveller and diplomat, the envoy to Muscovy, author of memoirs witnessing the Time of Troubles and the maps of Eastern Europe and Siberia. Massa's experience in and knowledge of Muscovy transformed him into a Dutch 'Kremlinologist.' The Isaac Massa Foundation in Groningen aims to stimulate scientific and cultural contacts between the Russian Federation and the Netherlands.
Isaac Massa was born in a wealthy silk merchant's family that relocated from Liege to Haarlem before his birth. His ancestors could have been Italian huguenots who fled their homeland in the beginning of the Reformation. The family surname was also known as Massart, Massaert.
In 1601 Isaac left Haarlem for Moscow to assist the family trade. Isaac has been witness to the second half of Boris Godunov's reign that evolved into a civil war now known as the Time of Troubles. He survived the capture of Moscow by False Dmitriy I and left Russi...
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Plans of Moscow 1610, 1618;
N. Russia 1612 and
South Russia, used by Blaeu & Jansson.

Tooley.

Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734

'Das Nordwestliche Africa' - Adolf Gräf ca 1860.

Molyneux, Emery.

Biografiska uppgifter:Död i juni 1598.
Emery Molyneux was an English Elizabethan maker of globes, mathematical instruments and ordnance. His terrestrial and celestial globes, first published in 1592, were the first to be made in England and the first to be made by an Englishman.
Molyneux was known as a mathematician and maker of mathematical instruments such as compasses and hourglasses. He became acquainted with many prominent men of the day, including the writer Richard Hakluyt and the mathematicians Robert Hues and Edward Wright. He also knew the explorers Thomas Cavendish, Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh and John Davis. Davis probably introduced Molyneux to his own patron, the London merchant William Sanderson, who largely financed the construction of the globes. When completed, the globes were presented to Elizabeth I. Larger globes were acquired by royalty, noblemen and academic institutions, while smaller ones were purchased as practical navigation aids for sailors and students. The globes were the first to be made in such a way that they were unaffected by the humidity at sea, and they came into general use on ships.
Molyneux emigrated to Amsterdam with his wife in 1596 or 1597. He succeeded in interesting the States-General, the parliament of the United Provinces, in a cannon he had invented, but he died suddenly in June 1598, apparently in poverty. The globe-making industry in England died with him.
Only six of his globes are believed still to be in existence. Three are in England, of which one pair consisting of a terrestrial and a celestial globe is owned by Middle Temple and displayed in its library, while a terrestrial globe is at Petworth House in Petworth, West Sussex.

Molyneux accompanied Francis Drake on his 1577–1580 circumnavigation of the world; as Ubaldini reported, '[h]e himself has been in those seas and on those coasts in the service of the same Drake'. A legend in Latin on the terrestrial globe, explaining why Molyneux had left out the polar lands and corrected the distance across the Atlantic Ocean between The Lizard and Cape Race in Newfoundland, concluded:
'Quod equide[m] effeci tu[m] ex meis navigationibus primo, tum deinceps ex felici illa sub clariss. Fran. Drako ad Indos Occident, expeditione, in qua non modo optimas quasqu[e] alioru[m] descriptiones, sed quidquid mea quantulacu[m]que, vel scie[n]ta vel experientia ad integru[m] hoc qui[n]quen[n]io pr[a]estare potuit, ad hujus operis perfectione[m] co[m]paravi ...' [I have been able to do this both in the first place from my own voyages and secondly from that successful expedition to the West Indies under the most illustrious Francis Drake: in which expedition I have put together not only all the best delineations of others, but everything my own humble knowledge or experience has been able to furnish in the last five years to the perfecting of this work.]
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'The Globes Celestial and Terrestrial Set Forth in Plano'

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