Fransk geograf under mitten av 1700-talet. Han var ursprungligen ingenjör men fick titeln kunglig geograf hos Ludvig XV. 1733 gav han ut 'Théatre de la guerre en Allemagne' som kom i flera utgåvor, 1784 'Nouvel Atlas portatif', 1757 'Recueil des côtes maritimes de la France' och 1760 'Topographie des chemins de l'Angleterre'. Mer kulturhistoriskt betingat är 'Curiosités de Londres' (1765) och 'Curiosités de Paris' i 3 band (1778).
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Théatre de la guerre en Allemagne.
Nouvel Atlas portatif.
Recueil des côtes maritimes de la France.
Topographie des chemins de l'Angleterre.
Curiosités de Londres.
Curiosités de Paris.
Nouv. biogr. gen. - Phillips.
PTOLEMAIOS, CLAUDIUS (Ptolemaeus / Ptolemy).
Ca. 150 e. Kr.
Den äldre tidens mest berömda astronom, geograf och matematiker. Hans astronomiska teorier var ledande under 14 århundraden, och hans främsta verk, 'Syntaxis' eller 'Almagest', avlöstes inte förrän Newtons banbrytande forskning. Hans 'Geographia' dominerade hela den kristna och muhammedanska världen under 1500 år. Det var Ptolemaeus som införde begreppen längd- och breddgrader, det system som geografin sedan dess följt i alla tider. Efter uppfinningen av boktryckerikonsten kom hans främsta geografiska verk helt eller delvis ut i en rad utgåvor, som oftast kompletterades med senare forskningsresultat och nyare kartritningar. Till år 1700 hade 45 utgåvor på många olika språk utgivits. Sedan dess har ytterligare 7 utgåvor tillkommit, den senaste år 1883.
The 1482 edition of the Cosmographia, printed in Ulm, is one of the finest and most ambitious productions of the fifteenth century and the first printed atlas to include a corpus of “modern maps” as revised and supplemented by the important renaissance c...
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World. Untitled map of the world. Ulm: Leinhart Holle, 1482 or later. Prepared by Donnus Nicolas Germanus and cut by Johannes “Schnitzer”.
This world map is from the first edition of Ptolemy to be printed north of the Alps, and the first to use woodcut maps. It is the earliest surviving printed map signed by its engraver, and the first in the Ptolemaic sequence to include Scandinavia and to allude to lands beyond the confines of Ptolemy’s world view.
Salmonsen.- Tooley.
1562-1622.
Plancius was a theologian and minister of the Dutch Reformed Church who fled with many of his compatriots from religious persecution in Flanders to settle in Amsterdam in 1585. There he became interested in navigation and cartography and, being fortunate enough to have access to nautical charts recently brought from Portugal, he was soon recognized as an expert on the shipping routes to India. He was interested, too, in the idea of a North East passage until the failure of Willem Barentsz's third voyage in 1597 seemed to preclude the possibility of such a route. In 1602 he was appointed cartographer to the new Dutch East India Company.
Although Plancius produced no atlases his individual maps and charts, over 100 in all, exercised much influence on the work of other cartographers at the turn of the century. His very large wall map of the world dated 1592 was of particular significance.
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
Gulmåra, Galium verum - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
Keere, Pieter van den [Kaerius, Petrus]
Biografiska uppgifter:1571-c. 1646.
Pieter van den Keere was one of a number of refugees who fled from religious persecution in the Low Countries between the years 1570 and 1 590. He moved to London in 1584 with his sister who married Jodocus Hondius, also a refugee there, and through Hondius he undoubtedly learned his skills as an engraver and cartographer. In the course of a long working life he engraved a large number of individual maps for prominent cartographers of the day but he also produced an Atlas of the Netherlands (1617-22) and county maps of the British Isles which have become known as Miniature Speeds, a misnomer which calls for some explanation.
In about 1599 he engraved plates for 44 maps of the English and Welsh counties, the regions of Scotland and the Irish provinces. The English maps were based on Saxton, the Scottish on Ortelius and the Irish on the famous map by Boazio. These maps were not published at once in book form but there is evidence which suggests a date of issue (in Amsterdam) between 1605 and 1610 although at least one authority believes they existed only in proof form until 1617 when Willem Blaeu issued them with a Latin edition of Camden's Britannia. At this stage two maps were added, one of the British Isles and the other of Yorkshire, the latter derived from Saxton. To confuse things further the title page of this edition is signed 'Guilielmus noster Janssonius', which is the Latinized form of Blaeu's name commonly used up to 1619.
At some time after this the plates came into the possession of Speed's publishers, George Humble, who in 1627, the year in which he published a major edition of Speed's Atlas, also issued the Keere maps as a pocket edition. For these he used the descriptive texts of the larger Speed maps and thereafter they were known as Miniature Speeds. In fact, of the 63 maps in the Atlas, 40 were from the original van den Keere plates, reworked, 16 were reduced from Speed and 7 were additional. The publication was very popular and there were further re-issues up to 1676.
