SÖK KARTOGRAFER, GRAVÖRER M.FL.

KEULEN van.

Holländsk bokhandlarfirma, grundlagd i Amsterdam 1678 av Joannes van Keulen (se denne). Denne handlade med sjökort samt matematiska och nautiska böcker och instrument som han till viss del gjorde förarbetet till. Som förläggare gav han ut en rad stora sjökartverk som 'De lichtende Zeefaakkel' (1680-84), 'Zee Atlas' (1680) och 'De groote nieuwe vermeerderde Zee Atlas ofte water werelt' (1695). Dessa verk kom i flera nyutgåvor. - Hans son, Gerard van Keulen, fortsatte verksamheten, reviderade de gamla kartorna och kompletterade med nya. Efter hans död 1726 fortsatte företaget under ledning av Johannes van Keulen d.y. (d. 1755). 1728 utkom en fransk utgåva, 'Flambeau de la mer' i 4 band, och 1753 en reviderad utgåva, 'De nieuwe groote lichtende Zee fakkel'. Från 1779 var Gerard Hulst van Keulen (se denne) innehavare av företaget och ombesörjde flera nyutgåvor av firmans atlaser. 1802 hade 'Zee-Fakkel' (med text på holländska, franska och spanska) kommit ut i 26 utgåvor, och 'Zee-Atlas' (utan text) i 15 utgåvor....
Bland arbeten.
De lichtende Zeefaakkel.
Zee Atlas.
De groote nieuwe vermeerderde Zee Atlas ofte water werelt.
Flambeau de la mer.
De nieuwe groote lichtende Zee fakkel.

Nissen. - Nouv. biogr. gen. - Phillips. - Wieder.

Fricx, Eugene Henri.

fl. 1706 - ca 1740.
Bookseller and printer in Brussels whose major work was a very large-scale map of Belgium and Luxembourg, much copied by other publishers. 

VALCK (VALK), GERARD.

Ca: 1651-1726. Född och död i Amsterdam.
Holländsk kartograf. Han utmärkte sig som kopparstickare hos Abraham Blooteling i Amsterdam och blev en produktiv konstnär inom olika genrer. 1672 reste han till England där han vistades under ett antal år. Efter hemkomsten till Amsterdam etablerade han tillsammans med sin kompanjon Blooteling en konsthandel. Senare allierade han sig med sin elev Pieter Schenk (se denne) och drev en omfattande karthandel, främst med andras arbeten. Bl.a. övertog de Joannes Janssonius' (se denne) atlas. Förutom kartor utgav han även jordglober och samlingar med översikter. Firman övertogs senare av en av hans söner, Leonard Valck (se denne).

Kleerkooper. - Phillips. - Thieme-Becker.

Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734

Hundviol, Viola canina - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.

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.]
Bland arbeten:
'The Globes Celestial and Terrestrial Set Forth in Plano'

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