METIO, [METIUS, MATIUS], ADRIANO.
1571-1635.
Mathematician and astronomer.
Bland arbeten.
W. Frisia 1630, used by Hondius and Blaeu.
Tooley.
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
APIAN, PETER (Apian, Appianus, Bienewitz, Bennewitz, Panewitz).
Född 1495 i Leisnig i Saxen.
Se A. Ortelii "Catalogus cartographorum" av Leo Bagrow. Del 1. Gotha Justus Perthes 1928.
Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.
'Entrevue du Commodore Byron avec les Patagons.' - 1785.
