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Biografier.

TÖRNSTEN, JONAS EDVARD.

1733-1783.
Surveyor in Västerbotten province.


Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.

GRIPENHIELM, CARL.

1655-1694.
Direktör för lantmäteriet, tog initiativet till den första svenska Generalkartan.

At the age of 28, appointed director (later director-general) for the National Land Survey. Offices were a room at the royal palace, 'but in autumn, winter and spring, maps never could be stored there because of the moisture, snow and rain that drift in through the leaky walls'. Wrote poetry with same success - 200 years later the works were deemed 'currently unpalatable'. In the early 1690s worked on Stockholm's Outer archipelago, until then poorly represented on charts. For security reasons, the lise of maps was restricted. His maps first round real use a hundred years later as underpinning for Sweden's Marine Atlas (Sveriges Sjöatlas).
Bland arbeten.
Sveriges Sjöatlas.


Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.

WYLD, JAMES.

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.


Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.


Storandmat, Spirodela polyrrhiza - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.

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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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