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Salmson, Axel Jacob.

(1807-1876)
Salmson, svensk-judisk konstnärsfamilj inflyttad från Prag på 1790-talet. Axel Jacob Salmson, litograf (1807-76), utgav bl.a. planschverken 'Trettioåriga krigets märkvärdigaste personer' (1844-56), ny upplaga 1861. 'Konung Gustaf III och hans samtida' (1846-47), och 'Rikssalen på Gripsholms slott' (1847-49). Salmson grundade 1854 en litografisk anstalt och gav 1859-61 ut 'Litografiskt allehanda', som fick stor betydelse för svensk illustrationskonst men tyvärr förorsakade Salmsons ekonomiska ruin. 1862 bosatte sig Salmson i USA

Axel Jakob (förut Sem Jakob) S., litograf, f. 1807, d. 1876 i Amsterdam, staten New York, blef liksom brodern elev vid konstakademien, men utbildade sig på egen hand för sitt blifvande fack. Bland de planschverk, som han utgaf, äro porträttsamlingarna Svenska konungar och deras tidehvarf (1830-43; förkortad uppl. 1855-60) samt Trettioåriga krigets märkvärdigaste personer (1844-56; ny uppl. 1861), båda efter egna teckningar. Dessa verk, som vunno mycken spridning, utmärkas för pr...
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'Trettioåriga krigets märkvärdigaste personer' (1844-56), ny upplaga 1861.
'Konung Gustaf III och hans samtida' (1846-47),
'Rikssalen på Gripsholms slott' (1847-49)
Svenska konungar och deras tidehvarf (1830-43; förkortad uppl. 1855-60)
Lithografiskt Allehanda.

Nordisk Familjebok, Uggleupplagan.Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon.

Cellarius, Andreas.

(c. 1596, Neuhausen, – 1665, Hoorn)
Cellarius was a Dutch-German cartographer, best known for his Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1660, a major star atlas, published by Johannes Janssonius in Amsterdam.
He was born in Neuhausen (now a part of Worms), and was educated in Heidelberg. The Protestant Cellarius may have left Heidelberg at the onset of the Thirty Years' War in 1618 or in 1622 when the city came in Catholic hands. His activities are unclear at this time but based on his later works it is conjectured he spent time in Poland and may have even worked as a military engineer there. In 1625 he married Catharina Elt(e)mans in Amsterdam, where he worked as school master of a Latin School. After a brief stay in The Hague, the family moved to Hoorn. From 1637 until his death he was rector of the Latin School in Hoorn, where Pieter Anthoniszoon Overtwater was conrector.
He published on fortification and on Poland.
The minor planet 12618 Cellarius is named in his honour.

Andreas Cellarius

The Dutch-German mathematician and cosmogr...
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Harmonia macrocosmica sea atlas universalis et novus. Amsterdam: G. Valck and P. schenk, 1708.
Folio (530 x 320mm), allegorical title engraved by F. H. van Hoven, printed in red and black with woodcut vignette, letterpress title with contents and 29 double-page engraved cosmographical charts finely coloured by hand, without text.
One of the most fascinating achievement from the golden age of Dutch cartography. The Harmonia macrocosmica is the only atlas of the period dealing with astronomy.
Unlike the late celestial atlases, the Cellarius charts demonstrated various ancient and contemporary cosmological ideas, rather than just the names and positions of the stars. The purpose of the book was to assess different attempts to discover the underlying harmony of the universe. The charts represent the highest levels of seventeenth-century astronomical thought, with the diagram showing aspects of the three great theories on the nature of the universe; the Ptolemaic, the Copernican and the Brahean.

LONGMAN, THOMAS.

1699-1755.
Se Longman & Co.

Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936

Regni Norvegiae. - Joh. Bapt. Homann. Ca 1700.

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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