MASSA [MASSART, MASSAERT], ISAAC.
Baptized October 7, 1586 in Haarlem, died 1643.
Dutch cartographer and traveller to Moscow.
Isaac Abrahamszoon Massa was a Dutch grain trader, traveller and diplomat, the envoy to Muscovy, author of memoirs witnessing the Time of Troubles and the maps of Eastern Europe and Siberia. Massa's experience in and knowledge of Muscovy transformed him into a Dutch 'Kremlinologist.' The Isaac Massa Foundation in Groningen aims to stimulate scientific and cultural contacts between the Russian Federation and the Netherlands.
Isaac Massa was born in a wealthy silk merchant's family that relocated from Liege to Haarlem before his birth. His ancestors could have been Italian huguenots who fled their homeland in the beginning of the Reformation. The family surname was also known as Massart, Massaert.
In 1601 Isaac left Haarlem for Moscow to assist the family trade. Isaac has been witness to the second half of Boris Godunov's reign that evolved into a civil war now known as the Time of Troubles. He survived the capture of Moscow by False Dmitriy I and left Russi...
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Plans of Moscow 1610, 1618;
N. Russia 1612 and
South Russia, used by Blaeu & Jansson.
Tooley.
1750-1823.
He was an English geographer (mapmaker) and member of the Arrowsmith family of geographers. He moved to Soho Square, London from Winston, County Durham when about twenty years of age, and was employed by John Gary, the engraver and led for some years the office of hydrographer to the king. In January 1790 he made himself famous by his large chart of the world on Mercator projection. Four years later he published another large map of the world on the globular projection, with a companion volume of explanation. The maps of North America (1796) and Scotland (1807) are the most celebrated of his many later productions. He left two sons, Aaron and Samuel, the elder of whom was the compiler of the Eton Comparative Atlas, of a Biblical atlas, and of various manuals of geography.
The business was thus carried on in company with John Arrowsmith (1790-1873), nephew of the elder Aaron. In 1821, they published a more complete North American map from a combination of a maps obtained from the Hudson Bay Company and Aaro...
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First map of North America, 1790
A Map Exhibiting All the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America, January 1, 1795 (Other editions 1801, 1802, 1804 and 1816 featuring roads)
Chart of the South Pacific, 1798
A New Map of Africa, 1802
Map of Countries Round the North Pole, 1818
Ogden map (North America), 1821 (2nd edition : 1834)
Född 1771 i Mézières, död 1850.
Lantmätare', kartograf och officer. Pierre Lapie gjorde i huvudsak en militär karriär, 1794 blev han geograf hos ingenjörstrupperna. Deltog i flera kampanjer och befodrades stegvis tills han blev överste i generalstaben. 1814 blev han chef för topografiska avdelningen på krigsministeriet. Hans kanske största uppdrag fick han dock 1818 när han skulle leda utförandet av de nya kartorna över Frankrike. Pierre Lapie kunde titulera sig kungens geograf i två omgångar, samt kejserlig geograf däremellan. Under sin tjänstgöringstid så låg han vid ett av gardesregementena. Hans son Alexandre Emile Lapie tjänstgjorde vid samma regemente. Fader och son samarbetade även som kartografer, bland annat med 'Atlas Universel de Geographie Ancienne et Moderne' Paris 1838.
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Atlas Universel de Geographie Ancienne et Moderne.
Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.
Borgenstjerna - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1900.
