Montanus, Petrus. [Pieter van den Berg]
ft. 1606.
A Dutch geographer, active in Amsterdam, who worked in association with his brother-in-law, J odocus Hondius, for whom he prepared the text of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas (1606 and later editions). The map noted below, attributed to Montanus, is the first separately printed one of Maryland; known as 'Lord Baltimore's Map' it was published by him to attract settlers to the colony.
Vance har även ritat 'The World, on a Globular Projection...'. Stor världskarta graverad av James H. Young och utgiven hos Anthony Finley Philadelphia c:a 1830. Kartan är bara känd i två exemplar.
Bland arbeten.
Maps in Hart's Modern Atlas 1828.
Massachusetts, Connecticut & Rhode Is. 1825.
Tooley. RdeT
1562-1622.
Plancius was a theologian and minister of the Dutch Reformed Church who fled with many of his compatriots from religious persecution in Flanders to settle in Amsterdam in 1585. There he became interested in navigation and cartography and, being fortunate enough to have access to nautical charts recently brought from Portugal, he was soon recognized as an expert on the shipping routes to India. He was interested, too, in the idea of a North East passage until the failure of Willem Barentsz's third voyage in 1597 seemed to preclude the possibility of such a route. In 1602 he was appointed cartographer to the new Dutch East India Company.
Although Plancius produced no atlases his individual maps and charts, over 100 in all, exercised much influence on the work of other cartographers at the turn of the century. His very large wall map of the world dated 1592 was of particular significance.
Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
Vaxholms fästning - Svecia Antiqua et Hodierna.
