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Bertius, Petrus. [Bert].

1565-1629.
Petrus Bertius grew up in Beveren in Flanders and as a young man travelled widely in Europe. In company with so many of his compatriots he moved to Amsterdam as a refugee from religious persecution and after completing his studies there he was appointed a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his editions of Ptolemy's Geographia (based on Mercator's edition of 1578) and for the miniature atlases detailed below. In 1618 he moved to Paris and became Official Cosmographer to Louis XIII. He was related by marriage to Jodocus Hondius and Pieter van den Keere.

HERODOTES.


Grek som benämns som ”historiebeskrivningens fader” (400-talet fKr). Lade grunden till T-Kartor, eller ”T i O-kartor” (Orbis Terrarum). Detta var en typ av religiösa kartor där Jerusalem ligger i världens mitt, de var mer symboliska än geografiska. Runt jorden fanns Oceanus och jordytan delades i tre delar av ett ”T”. Öster var ofta orienterat uppåt i kartan. Asien låg överst i kartan, under låg Europa till vänster och Afrika till höger. Delarna skiljdes av floderna Don (mellan Asien och Europa) och Nilen (mellan Asien och Afrika).

HATON, CLAUDE.

Död efter 1727.
Fransk kopparstickare, elev av Ch. Simonneau, inkallades till Sverige av N. Tessin för att gravera ritningarna till Stockholms slott, vilka stuckos 1703-1712 i betydande format.

Kopparstickare.(Födelse- och dödsår okända).
Född fransman och elev af Ch. Simonneau, inkallades af N. Tessin för att gravera ritningarna till Stockholms nya slott. Dessa blad af mycket stort format begynte han utföra omkr. 1703, och omkr. 1712 voro de fulländade. H. underhölls i Stockholm h. o. h. [helt och hållet] på Tessins bekostnad, så länge detta arbete varade. 1711-27 utförde H. dessutom en och annan boktitel samt åtskilliga tämligen groft graverade porträtt. Som konstnärlig gravör är han af underordnad betydelse.

Efter inventeringen av koppargravyrerna till Suecia Antiqua et Hodierna 1725 inför första upplagans inbindning så kallades bl. a. Haton att retuschera och laga de plåtar som skadats sedan de graverats (i vissa fall över 50 år tidigare). Haton är inte nämnd såsom gravör på någon av plåtarna.


Sv Uppsl. bok 2:a uppl. bd 12 1949 s. 1.166. (Nordisk familjebok, andra upplagan) B.L.


Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734


Belägringen av Riga år 1700. - Stockholm 1922.

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Covens et Mortier

Biografiska uppgifter:1721 - ca 1862.
The Amsterdam publishing firm of Covens and Mortier (1721 - c. 1862) was the successor to the extensive publishing empire built by Frenchman Pierre Mortier (1661 - 1711). Upon Mortier's death in 1711 his firm was taken over by his son, Cornelius Mortier (1699 - 1783). Cornelius married the sister of Johannes Covens (1697 - 1774) in 1821 and, partnering with his brother in law, established the Covens and Mortier firm. Under the Covens and Mortier imprint, Cornelius and Pierre republished the works of the great 17th and early 18th century Dutch and French cartographers De L'Isle, Allard, Jansson, De Wit, and Ottens among others. They quickly became one of the largest and most prolific Dutch publishing concerns of the 18th century. The firm and its successors published thousands of maps over a 120 year period from 1721 to the mid-1800s. During their long lifespan the Covens and Mortier firm published as Covens and Mortier (1721-1778), J. Covens and Son (1778 - 94) and Mortier, Covens and Son (1794 - c. 1862)

Under the heading Pieter Mortier we give some details of the extensive publishing business which he built up in Amsterdam and which, after his death, was subsequently taken over by his son, the above-named Cornelis. In 1721 Cornelis married the sister of Johannes Covens and in the same year he and Johannes entered into partnership as publishers under the name Covens and Mortier which, with its successors, became one of the most important firms in the Dutch map publishing business.
Their prolific Output over the years included reissues of general atlases by Sanson, Jaillot, Delisle, Visscher, de Wit (whose stock they acquired) and others (often with re-engraved maps), atlases of particular countries including Germany, England and Scotland and others in Europe, pocket atlases, town plans and, from about 1730 onwards, a series under the title Nieuwe Atlas, some consisting of as many as 900 maps by various cartographers and publishers. As there is no conformity about these volumes they were presumably made up to special order and only general details of publication can be quoted in a work of this size.

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