Keere, Pieter van den [Kaerius, Petrus]
1571-c. 1646.
Pieter van den Keere was one of a number of refugees who fled from religious persecution in the Low Countries between the years 1570 and 1 590. He moved to London in 1584 with his sister who married Jodocus Hondius, also a refugee there, and through Hondius he undoubtedly learned his skills as an engraver and cartographer. In the course of a long working life he engraved a large number of individual maps for prominent cartographers of the day but he also produced an Atlas of the Netherlands (1617-22) and county maps of the British Isles which have become known as Miniature Speeds, a misnomer which calls for some explanation.
In about 1599 he engraved plates for 44 maps of the English and Welsh counties, the regions of Scotland and the Irish provinces. The English maps were based on Saxton, the Scottish on Ortelius and the Irish on the famous map by Boazio. These maps were not published at once in book form but there is evidence which suggests a date of issue (in Amsterdam) between 1605 and 1610 although at...
1715-1766.
Chief surveyor in Hudiksvall. [Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin]
1752-ca. 1810. Född och död i Paris.
Fransk geograf. Under åren före den franska revolutionen var han matematiklärare för prinsen av Contis pager. Han gav ut flera atlaser och geografiska verk, varav kan nämnas 'Recherches historiques sur Orléans' (1744). 'Dictionnaire Hydrographique de la France' (1787) och 'Atlas national portatif de la France suivant la nouvelle Division en 83 Départements' (1792). Han lät också ge ut särskilt komplicerade verk i geografiska och historiska ämnen.
Bland arbeten.
Recherches historiques sur Orléans.
Dictionnaire Hydrographique de la France.
Atlas national portatif de la France suivant la nouvelle Division en 83 Départements.
Nouv. biogr. gen.
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
Skugglosta, Bromus Benekeni - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
