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EMMIUS [EMMIO], UBBO[NE].

1547-1625.
Cartographer and historian, d. Groningen.


Bland arbeten.
Frisia Orientalis, 1590-(5).
Maps of Groningen & Friesland 1616 used Hondius, Blaeu &c.

Tooley.

CAROLUS FLANDRO [CARL] JORIS [GEORGIUS].

1601-1625.
Pilot and map maker. Compiled various MS maps and map of Iceland, printed by Hondius 1631, and Blaeu. Worked to improve Waghemaer's Het niewe Vermeerde Licht 1634.

Carolus, Joris [Georgius], holländsk skeppare och kartograf i början 1600-talet. Han var en välkänd skeppare i nordliga farvatten och deltog i tre expeditioner för att finna Nordvästpassagen. 1625 besökte han Island, och erbjöd sig i ett brev därifrån att gå i tjänst hos Danmarks konung Christian IV, vilket troligtvis aldrig blev av. Efter hemkomsten till Holland gav han 1626 ut en karta över nämnda trakt, 'Nieuwe pascaert van Ijsland, Fretum Davids ende de landen daer by westen' och 1634 utgav han ett nautiskt verk, 'Hetnieuw vermeerde Licht... des Grooten Zeevaerts', som innehöll en ny karta över dessa farvatten. Han utarbetade en specialkarta över Island som publicerades första gången i J.J. Pontanus: 'Rerum Danicarum historia' (1631). Förläggaren av detta verk var Joannes Janssonius (se denne) som senare tog med kartan i sin atlas. Den f...
Bland arbeten.
Nieuwe pascaert van Ijsland, Fretum Davids ende de landen daer by westen.
Hetnieuw vermeerde Licht... des Grooten Zeevaerts.
Islands karta i Rerum Danicarum historia.

Tooley.H. Hermannsson i Islandica, b. XVII, s. 22f., och b. XXI, s. 36f.

LINNERHJELM, GUSTAF FREDRIK

1757-1819
Upptagen hos Tooley som 'Swedish Royal Geographer' med en karta 'Lands Wägarne genom södra Sverige 1792'. Det är möjligt att denna karta är den enda som Linnerhjelm har varit redaktör för.
Skalan är ca 1:1.100.000.
Bland arbeten.
Lands Wägarne genom södra Sverige 1792

RdeTTooley

Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.

Skrivkonsten - Diderot 1751.

Verden, Karl van.

Carl Van Verden (fl. c. 1718 - 1730) was a Dutch seaman in the employ of the Russian Navy during the early 18th century. Van Verden is best known for his important 1719 - 1721 mapping of the Caspian Sea, which was the most sophisticated and accurate that had been issued to date. A significant cartographic achievement, Van Verden's work on the Caspian led directly to Peter the Great's 1722 invasion of Baku and Derbent and Russian hegemony in the region. Despite his achievements in the Caspian, Van Verden was later passed up by the Tzar in favor of Vitus Behring for the commission to discover a Northeast Passage through the Russian Arctic.

Around 1718 the Russian Tzar, Peter the Great, sponsored a number of cartographic expeditions to the farthest reaches of his vast empire. Most of these were headed up by Dutch navigators, the most experienced and mercenary of the era. Carl Van Verden, a Dutch seaman, was commissioned as a Russian naval officer and assigned the task of mapping the Caspian Sea. Though well known since antiquity the world’s largest lake was largely ignored by surveyors until Van Verden’s work in the early 18th century. Van Verden’s work had significant political ramifications. Peter the Great, Russia’s most expansionist Tzar, was determined to make the Caspian a “Russian Lake” and invaded the region in 1722 seizing Derbent and Baku.

Copies of Van Verden’s work eventually made their way to Paris via Nicholas de L’Isle, brother to the more famous cartographer G. de L’Isle. Geographers in Paris quick recognized the importance of the work and the era most significant cartographers and map publishers, including Homann, De L’Isle, Moll, and Covens and Mortier, were quick to copy and publish their own variants of the Van Verden chart. This example is of the more obscure such charts. Published in Paris around 1730, this map offers a number of important elements. All text is in both French and transliterated Russian, so “Bulsebek” becomes “Usbech” and “La Mer Caspie” becomes “More Gualenskoi”, etc. Many of the mountains along the lake’s western and southern shores are noted and curiously rendered with an unusual lake-centric orientation. Also noted are the Caspian’s various reefs, shoals, sandbars, and other undersea dangers.
Bland arbeten:
Carte Marine de la Mer Caspiene.

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