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Bertius, Petrus. [Bert].

1565-1629.
Petrus Bertius grew up in Beveren in Flanders and as a young man travelled widely in Europe. In company with so many of his compatriots he moved to Amsterdam as a refugee from religious persecution and after completing his studies there he was appointed a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his editions of Ptolemy's Geographia (based on Mercator's edition of 1578) and for the miniature atlases detailed below. In 1618 he moved to Paris and became Official Cosmographer to Louis XIII. He was related by marriage to Jodocus Hondius and Pieter van den Keere.

MERCATOR, RUMOLD.

Ca. 1547-99.
Tysk kartograf son till Gerard Mercator (se denne). Född i Leuven, död i Duisburg. Han började som bokhandlarlärling hos förläggaren Arnold Birckman i Köln och arbetade sedan under flera år vid dennes filialer i London och Antwerpen. Men så kastade han sig över geografiska studier och blev sin fars medhjälpare. Världskartan 1587 är det första kända arbetet från hans hand. Senare följde en Europakarta och 1590 en Tysklandskarta. Efter faderns död ansvarade han för utgivningen av dennes atlas.


Averdunk.

BENARD


Gravör. Upptagen på kopparstick till Denis Diderot's 'Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences', band LXXXIV och LXXXV. 1751-1780.
Bland arbeten.
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences


Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.


Bottenviken - Stockholm 1881.

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Goos, Abraham.

Biografiska uppgifter:fl. 1614-43
Abraham Goos was a noted engraver in Amsterdam who prepared plates for many maps published in well-known atlases of his time including Speed's A Prospect ofthe Most Famous Parts of the World (1627) and the 1632 edition of Speed's Atlas. He was related to the Hondius family by whom he was also employed as an engraver. In 1616 he issued a book of maps, the Nieuw Nederlandtsh Caertboeck (4to) which was re-issued in 1619 and 1625.

His son, Pieter, continued and extended his father's business and became one of the group of well-known engravers of sea charts active in Amsterdam in the middle years of the seventeenth century. In common with Colom, Doncker and Jacobsz he published a pilot guide, the Zee-Spiegel, basing it on plates obtained from Jacobsz. This went through many editions in different languages under the startling titles so popular at the time. In addition to publishing his Zee-Spiegel in the usual Parts 1 and II (Europe and Atlantic coasts) and Part III (Mediterranean) he broke new ground in preparing Parts IV and V, covering charts and sailing directions for the coasts of the West Indies and West Africa. The later editions of the Zee Atlas were published by his widow who eventually sold the publishing rights of the Atlas and of the Zee-Spiegel to Jacobus Robijn.

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