1653-1722.
A book publisher who started business in Utrecht and later moved to Amsterdam and finally settled in Leeuwarden.
Född 1679, död 11 februari 1754.
Son till kontraktsprosten och kyrkoherden i Rättvik Anders Tillaeus och Elisabet Dalborg. Petrus Tillaeus studerade vid Uppsala universitet 1699-1711 och blev sedan auskultant i Bergskollegium 1713.
'Stadsingenjör i Stockholm 1717, utnämndes han 1748 till rådman därstädes och afled d. 11 febru. 1754. Såsom stadsingenjör ådagalade han stor insiktsfullhet och inlade isynnerhet stor förtjänst genom utarbetandet af goda kartor. Väl bekant är den s. k. 'Tillaei karta', en General Charta öfver Stockholm med Malmarne, fullbordad 1731 i skalan 1:4000, och hvarå han på statsmyndigheternas hemställan erhöll kungligt privilegium för tio år. Kartan, den största som intill senaste tid utgifvits öfver Stockholm, trycktes 1733 med af staden försträckta penningar, och att den blef till belåtenhet framgår däraf, att staden 1750 såsom belöning för densamma tillerkände T. en summa af 2,000 dal. smt.' (Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon)
Bland arbeten.
Karta över Stockholm, efter P. Wallrave, 1733, utförd i samarbete med C. E. Bergquist och Erik Geringius, jämte porträtt av Fredrik I, efter M. Mijtens, kpst.
'Kartan - den intill senaste tid största väggkarta, som utgetts över Stockholm - är icke officiell i egentligaste mening, men hölls för ett 'autentiquet document', såsom överintendenten K. Hårleman kallade den i ett till K. M:t 1752 avgivet memorial. De tolv plåtarna, vilka ägdes av staden, översågs 1770 av P. G. Floding, som därvid tillät sig modernisera utseendet vid Riddarhustorget. Man kan således skilja mellan avdrag gjorda före och efter nämnda tidpunkt.'
Nordisk Familjebok, 2:a upplagan, band 29, Stockholm 1919.
1812-87.
Engelsk geograf. Han var son till James Wyld (se denne). Fick först militär träning men gick snart över till faderns verksamhet. Han köpte William Fadens (se denne) kartförlag och blev 1830 medlem av Royal Geographical Society. Hans företag blev med tiden mycket omfattande och 1854 fanns den på tre olika ställen i London. Som kartutgivare ansträngde han sig alltid för att tillgodose det aktuella behovet. I hans produktion finner man således specialkartor över guldgrävardistrikt, krigskartor osv. Hans 'Popular Atlas' fick stor utbredning. Wylds kartor kom ofta kompletterade med värdefulla geografiska upplysningar. Hans största verk som geograf var emellertid en väldigt väl genomarbetad jordglob, som han slutförde 1851. Den var 60 fot hög, 40 fot i diameter och upplyst med gas. Wyld hade titeln kunglig geograf.
Bland arbeten.
Popular Atlas.
Dict. nat. biogr.
Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.
Väddö och Häverö skeppslag. Kartlagt 1905.
d'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon
Biografiska uppgifter:Born in Paris July 11, 1697 – died January 28, 1782.
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (born in Paris July 11, 1697 – January 28, 1782), was both a geographer and cartographer who greatly improved the standards of map-making. His maps of ancient geography, characterized by careful, accurate work and based largely on original research, are especially valuable. He left unknown areas of continents blank and noted doubtful information as such; compared to the lavish maps of his predecessors, his maps looked empty.
Work
D'Anville's map of China and Central Asia (1734) for du Halde's 'Description geographique de la Chine', compiled based on the first systematic geographic survey of the entire Chinese Empire by a team of French Jesuits (ca. 1700)
His passion for geographical research displayed itself from early years: at age of twelve he was already amusing himself by drawing maps for Latin authors. Later, his friendship with the antiquarian, Abbé Longuerue, greatly aided his studies.
His first serious map, that of Ancient Greece, was published when he was fifteen. At the age of twenty-two, he was appointed one the king's geographers, and began to attract the attention of first authorities. D'Anville's studies embraced everything of geographical nature in the world's literature, as far as he could muster it: for this purpose, he not only searched ancient and modern historians, travelers and narrators of every description, but also poets, orators and philosophers. One of his cherished subjects was to reform geography by putting an end to the blind copying of older maps, by testing the commonly accepted positions of places through a rigorous examination of all the descriptive authority, and by excluding from cartography every name inadequately supported. Vast spaces, which had before been bordered with countries and cities, were thus suddenly reduced mostly to a blank.
D'Anville was at first employed in the humbler task of illustrating by maps the works of different travellers, such as Marchais, Charlevoix, Labat and du Halde. For the history of China by the last-named writer he was employed to make an atlas, which was published separately at the Hague in 1737.[citation needed] Information for the maps of China came from land surveys made by the Chinese empire in 1708. His China maps have been called the 'standard Western source for the geography of China and adjacent regions,' throughout the 19th century.
In 1735 and 1736 brought out two treatises on the figure of the earth; but these attempts to solve geometrical problems by literary material were, to a great extent, refuted by Maupertuis' measurements of a degree within the polar circle. D'Anville's historical method was more successful in his 1743 map of Italy, which first indicated numerous errors in the mapping of that country and was accompanied by a valuable mémoir (a novelty in such work), showing in full the sources of the design. A trigonometrical survey which Benedict XIV soon after had made in the papal states strikingly confirmed the French geographer's results. In his later years d'Anville did yeoman service for ancient and medieval geography, accomplishing something like a revolution in the former; mapping afresh all the chief countries of the pre-Christian civilizations (especially Egypt), and by his Mémoire et abrégé de géographie ancienne et générale and his États formés en Europe après la chute de l'empire romain en occident (1771) rendering his labours still more generally useful. His last employment consisted in arranging his collection of maps, plans and geographical materials. It was the most extensive in Europe, and had been purchased by the king, who, however, left him the use of it during his life. This task performed, he sank into a total imbecility both of mind and body, which continued for two years, till his death in January 1782.
Honors
In 1754, at the age of fifty-seven, he became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, whose transactions he enriched with many papers. In 1775 he received the only place in the Académie des Sciences which is allotted to geography; and in the same year he was appointed, without solicitation, first geographer to the king.
The crater Anville on the Moon is named after him, as was the community of Danville, Vermont.
Bibliography
D'Anville's published memoirs and dissertations amounted to 78, and his maps to 211. A complete edition of his works was announced in 1806 by de Manne in 6 vols. quarto, but only two had appeared when the editor died in 1832. See Bon-Joseph Dacier, Éloge de d'Anville (Paris, 1802). Besides the separate works noticed above, d'Anville's maps executed for Rollin's Histoire ancienne and Histoire romaine, and his Traité des mesures anciennes et modernes (1769), deserve special notice.
Bland arbeten:
Pere J. B. du Halde with maps by d'Anville, 'Description geographique de la Chine', 1735.
'Nouvel Atlas de la Chine', 1737.
'Atlas Generale', circa 1740.
'Geographie Ancienne et Abregee', 1769.
- Se bild.
