1704-1781.
Rysk amiral. Nagaev skickades 1715 till Marinakademin i St Petersburg där han sex år senare blev underofficer. Redan efter några månader började Nagaev undervisa kadetter och detta pågick fram till 1724 på Kronstadt och sedan på Marinakademin i St Petersburg fram till 1729. Under dessa år hann Nagaev även med att övervaka arbetena på en kanal i Kronstadt. År 1723 publicerades tre nya sjökort i tredje upplagan av ryska sjöatlasen över Östersjön vilka Nagaev och I. L. Lyuberas hade uppmätt. Dessa är de första ryskproducerade sjökorten i den första ryska sjöatlasen över Östersjön. De två tidigare utgåvorna var i sin helhet kopior av Geddas svenska sjöatlas. Efter att mellan 1729 och 1733 karterat Kaspiska havet runt Astrakhan återvände Nagaev 1735 till St Petersburg. Åren 1741-42 förde Nagaev befäl på två resor mellan Arkangelsk och St Petersburg. På den andra resan sjönk hans fartyg och Nagaev ställdes inför rätta men frikändes och återinsattes i tjänst. Efter Vitus Berings död så sändes Nagaev iväg till Kamcha...
Bland arbeten.
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.
Sonson till Frederick de Wit d.ä. Tog över faderns verksamhet. Vid sin död övertogs firman av J. Covens (se denne) och C. Mortier (se denne).
Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936
Heraldischer Atlas, Tavla 33 - H. G. Ströhl 1899.
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.
