Carl Van Verden (fl. c. 1718 - 1730) was a Dutch seaman in the employ of the Russian Navy during the early 18th century. Van Verden is best known for his important 1719 - 1721 mapping of the Caspian Sea, which was the most sophisticated and accurate that had been issued to date. A significant cartographic achievement, Van Verden's work on the Caspian led directly to Peter the Great's 1722 invasion of Baku and Derbent and Russian hegemony in the region. Despite his achievements in the Caspian, Van Verden was later passed up by the Tzar in favor of Vitus Behring for the commission to discover a Northeast Passage through the Russian Arctic.
Around 1718 the Russian Tzar, Peter the Great, sponsored a number of cartographic expeditions to the farthest reaches of his vast empire. Most of these were headed up by Dutch navigators, the most experienced and mercenary of the era. Carl Van Verden, a Dutch seaman, was commissioned as a Russian naval officer and assigned the task of mapping the Caspian Sea. Though we...
Bland arbeten.
Carte Marine de la Mer Caspiene.
1525-1571.
Hans Rudolf Manuel (Deutsch) was a painter, designer and poet. Probably apprenticed with Maximilian Wischack in Basel in the early 1540s, he often designed for publishers in that city, although he lived in Bern. Less than a dozen known independent pen drawings and stained-glass designs bear dates (1540-50) and the monogram RMD. He designed greatly acclaimed topographical views of cities for Cosmographia. From 1562 he was governor of Morges in the canton of Waadt.
Bland arbeten.
Stadsvyer till Sebastian Münsters Kosmographica.
Vortecpan Maps & Prints.
CANTELLI [da VIGNOLA] GIACOMO [JACOBO].
1643-1695.
Cartographer of Modena.
Cantelli är även upphovsman till 'Il Corso del Fiume Reno d'Allemagna, d alla Mosella fino al Mare...'. Karta från 1689 enligt text å kartans nedre del. (RdeT)
Bland arbeten.
Alta Lombardia 1680.
Venice and China 1682.
Brandenburg 1687.
Brunswick 1691.
France 1691.
Italy 1695.
Mercurio Geografico 1688 (with maps).
Pair of globes for the Duke of Modena.
Il Corso del Fiume Reno d'Allemagna, d alla Mosella fino al Mare...
Tooley.
Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.
Slite hamn på Gotland, Lübeck, Wismar, Köpenhamn, Danzig. - Petter Gedda 1694.
