Tjänstgjorde i svenska fortifikationskåren. '.. var av balttysk härstamning och sedan 1632 stadsingeniör i Riga'.
Kart & Bildteknik 2003:3, artikel "Från Nyen till Hiddensee. Svensk kartläggning under 1600-talet". Av Ulla Ehrensvärd.
1751-1802.
Österrikisk kartograf. Gav år 1800 ut 'Allgemeiner grosser Atlass' med 55 kartor av olika utländska kartografer. De enkla bladen är daterade 1786-97.
Bland arbeten.
Allgemeiner grosser Atlass.
Phillips.
John: 1641-1708.
Samuel: before 1703-1739.
As a map engraver and hydrographer, Thornton was one of the best-known figures of his time, being appointed Hydrographer to the Hudson Bay Company and to the East India Company. He worked closely for many years with John Seller, William Fisher (fl. 1669-91), Richard Mount, Robert Morden and Philip Lea in preparing and publishing a number of well-known atlases and charts. In particular, when John Seller was beset by difficulties in completing the later volumes of the English Pilot, Thornton took over and subsequently published Book III (1703) and Book IV (1689), the latter in conjunction with William Fisher. He also assisted with the issue of Seller's Atlas Maritimus (c. 1675) and later issued an atlas of his own under the same title.
Bland arbeten.
c. 1667 Charts of the East Coast of England onwards
1685 Atlas Maritimus 1700 Re-issued
1689 English Pilot, Book IV 1698-1789 About 37 editions c. 1700 Atlas (without title)
1703 English Pilot, Book III 1711 Re-issued by Samuel Thornton and further issues to about 1761
David Bannister
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
Mjukplister, Lamium Amplexicaule L. - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
