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ROBIJN, JACOBUS.

Född ca. 1649.
Holländsk bok-, konst- och karthandlare. Han fick borgerskap i Amsterdam 1674. Tillsammans med Johannes van Keulen (se denne) gav han 1679 ut 26 stycken nya sjökort. 1683 lät han ge ut 'Zee Atlas' med 20 kartor och 1689 en större engelsk utgåva, 'The new enlarged Lightning Sea Column' med 137 kartor. En stor del av dessa var tidigare arbeten av Theunis Jacobsz och Jacob Theunisz (se denne). Robijn omnämns sista gången 1707.

About 1675, shortly before the van Keulen publishing business was set up in Amsterdam, Robijn practised there as a map 'illuminator' and chart seller. After a short association with Johannes van Keulen he acquired publishing rights covering the Zee-Spiegel and Zee Atlas from the widow of Pieter Goos and used the plates to produce his own pilot book and sea atlas. Apart from a small number of plates prepared to his own order, most of Robijn's work cannot be said to be original: he issued Goos's charts and those of Roggeveen with a variety of texts by J. and C. Jacobsz (Lootsman), Ar...
Bland arbeten.
Zee Atlas.
The new enlarged Lightning Sea Column.

SCAVENIUS [LAURIDS CLAUSEN].

1562-1626. Född i Köpenhamn, död i Stavanger.
Danish geographer, Bishop of Stavanger.

Norsk biskop. Han studerade först i Köpenhamn och senare i Rostock och Wittenburg där han tog magistergraden. 1590 blev han rektor vid Metropolitanskolan i Köpenhamn, 1594 professor pedagogicus vid universitetet där, och 1605 biskop i Stavanger. - Vid sidan om sin andliga verksamhet utarbetade han den första kända specialkartan över sitt stift. Den blev först publicerad i Blaeus (se denne) atlas med Scavenius' namn påtryckt, senare utan större förändringar upptagen i andra kartverk där endast utgivarens namn är angivet.


Tooley. Ehrencron - Jessen.

MERCATOR, RUMOLD.

Ca. 1547-99.
Tysk kartograf son till Gerard Mercator (se denne). Född i Leuven, död i Duisburg. Han började som bokhandlarlärling hos förläggaren Arnold Birckman i Köln och arbetade sedan under flera år vid dennes filialer i London och Antwerpen. Men så kastade han sig över geografiska studier och blev sin fars medhjälpare. Världskartan 1587 är det första kända arbetet från hans hand. Senare följde en Europakarta och 1590 en Tysklandskarta. Efter faderns död ansvarade han för utgivningen av dennes atlas.


Averdunk.


Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.


Nästrot, Neottia nidus avis - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.

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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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