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BURCHT, W. van den.


Cartographer.
Bois le Duc pub. Hondius 1630.


Tooley.

LINDSTRÖM, FRANS.


I vår förra årsbok berättade vi om Frans Lindström och en del andra Stockholmskonstnärer, som var föga kända. Det var egentligen en omarbetning av en liknande artikel i vår årsbok 1951, då Frans Lindström för första gången gjordes känd för allmänheten. På grund av det stora intresset för Lindströms akvareller har emellertid årsboken 1951 sedan flera år tillbaka varit totalt slut. Att vi återigen tar upp detta ämne beror på att vi alldeles nyligen fått bekräftat att Frans Lindström var vår utan jämförelse produktivaste Stockholmsskildrare i bild och att vi fått tillgång till troligen hela hans konstnärliga kvarlåtenskap.

I slutet av förra året fick vi kontakt med Lindströms systerson Folke Fredin och genom honom med Lindströms dotter, fru Dagny Jansson, den enda kvarlevande av Lindströms tre barn. Hon hade i förvar - på sätt och vis utan att riktigt veta om det - faderns många hundra skisser till akvareller och en mängd bildmaterial av olika slag. Då Lindström avled 80-årig 1954 tog sonen Gösta hand om ...


Ur Stockholms borgargilles årsbok 1973.

BOECK, CAESAR LAESAR.

1766-1832. Född i Fredrika, död i Christiania (Oslo).
Dansk-norsk officer 1789. 1791 beordrad att kartlägga Kongsbergs gruvområde. 1796 tog han avsked som officer med kaptens grad och slutförde sitt kartläggningsarbete året därpå. Han var sedan chef vid Kongsbergs silvergruva tills han 1810 slog sig ned i Kragerö som trähandlare. Boeck var flera gånger stortingsman och blev 1832 medlem i 'Huvudmatrikuleringskommissionen'.


A. Collett: Familjen Collett.


Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.


'Charta öfver Calmar län samt Öland...' - Sparrman 1796.

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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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