Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de.
Bland arbeten.
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.
Svensk-finländsk ätt, stammande från kyrkoherden i Grangärde (Västerås stift) Johannes Matthiae (d. 1622), dennes sonson upptog efter hemsocknen Skultuna namnet Schultenius, och den sistnämndes sonson (se nedan Nathanael Gerhard) adlades 1809 Schultén enligt RF §37. Sonson till denne var kirurgen prof. vid Helsingfors universitet Maximus Widekund S. (1847-1899). Ätten fortlever endast i Finland, där medl. inneha finsk friherrlig värdighet.
Svensk Uppslb. bd. 25 s. 559. 2:a uppl. 1953.
Middleton, previously a captain in the employ of The Hudson Bay Company, was financed by Arthur Dobbs to explore the north-western extremities of Hudson Bay in search of a north-western passage. The expedition, from 1741-42, should have disproved notions of such a passage, but the increasingly delusional Dobbs convinced himself that Middleton had deliberately falsified his findings, and mounted an attack on the captain’s integrity, using a series of rather dubious maps distorted to support his viewpoint.
Middleton’s chart over Hudson Bay, published before the eruption of the controversy, is of great importance as the attempt at an accurate survey of the west coast of Hudson Bay (Cumming et al, Exploration of North America, p. 188), and the only reliable printed cartographic record of the captain’s discoveries. Surprisingly, the chart was not included in Middleton’s book defending his reputation, and is now rare.
Bland arbeten.
Hudson Bay.
Sotheby's
Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936
Örnsköldsvik. - Stockholm 1927.
