Gav ut en globkarta i Augsburg år 1786. Familjen Probst graverade flera kartor under 1700-talet i Augsburg. Bl.a. Seutters karta över Konstantinopel c:a 1770.
1571-1646. Född i Säbrå, död i Stockholm.
Svensk ämbetsman och kartograf. Han började som kanslitjänsteman, men arbetade vid sidan om med genelogiska, astronomiska och kartografiska studier. 1602 deltog han i kartläggningen av Stockholm, 1619-20 vid gränsdragningen mellan Finland och Ryssland. 1623 fick han överinseende för det offentliga byggväsendet i Sverige och år 1628 blev han utnämnd att organisera det svenska lantmäteriet samt fick med denna ställning ett grundläggande inflytande över utvecklingen av det svenska lantmäteriväsendet. Han blev senare assessor vid krigskollegiet och krigsråd. - Som kartograf fick han 1603 i uppdrag av Karl IX att kartlägga Sverige och Finland. Resultatet framlades år 1611 med kartan 'Lapponiae. Bothaniae Cajaniaeque regni Suecie provinciarum septentrionalium nova delineatio'. Med stöd från Gustav Adolf fortsatte han sitt kartläggningsarbete och gav 1626 ut 'Orbis Arctoi nova et accurata delineatio', ett verk på 6 blad i förhållandevis litet format. Första utgåvan finns idag bara i ett fåtal exemplar. Hans kartor ...
Bland arbeten.
Lapponiae. Bothaniae Cajaniaeque regni Suecie provinciarum septentrionalium nova delineatio, 1611, sannolikt grav. av B.
Orbis Arctoi nova et accurata delineatio.
Hultmark, 1944. Lönborg, s. 10-16. - Orbis. - Sv. män och kv. Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin
1754-1825.
L'Enfant was born in Paris where he trained to be an architect. He came to America in 1777, and served George Washington as an engineer during the Revolutionary War. In 1791 President Washington asked L'Enfant to design the new capitol city in the District of Columbia. L'Enfant designed a city similar in layout to the then French capitol city of Versailles. The Capitol in Washington sits in a position similar to that of the palace in Versailles, the White House (originally called the President's House) in the position of Grand Trianon, and the Mall is like the Parc. The Commissioners of the City of Washington wanted to have a printed copy of the plan when they began to sell building lots. L'Enfant irritated them by working slowly and releasing only sketchy plans . On instruction from President Washington, Thomas Jefferson on February 27, 1792 wrote a letter to L'Enfant dismissing him as city planner. L'Enfant died penniless and was buried on a friend's estate. In 1909 his remains were moved to Arlington Natio...
Washington Map Society. Se även wikipedias artikel, 'Pierre Charles L'Enfant'.
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
Fleetwood - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1900.
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.
