Fransk geograf under mitten av 1700-talet. Han var ursprungligen ingenjör men fick titeln kunglig geograf hos Ludvig XV. 1733 gav han ut 'Théatre de la guerre en Allemagne' som kom i flera utgåvor, 1784 'Nouvel Atlas portatif', 1757 'Recueil des côtes maritimes de la France' och 1760 'Topographie des chemins de l'Angleterre'. Mer kulturhistoriskt betingat är 'Curiosités de Londres' (1765) och 'Curiosités de Paris' i 3 band (1778).
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Théatre de la guerre en Allemagne.
Nouvel Atlas portatif.
Recueil des côtes maritimes de la France.
Topographie des chemins de l'Angleterre.
Curiosités de Londres.
Curiosités de Paris.
Nouv. biogr. gen. - Phillips.
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)
Död ca 1663.
Wolfgang Hartmann, död omkring 1663, var en tysk kopparstickare.
Hartmann inflyttade omkring 1644 till Sverige, närmast från Riga och Rostock, och utförde här porträtt av bland andra drottning Kristina och Karl X Gustav, en stor utsikt av Stockholm samt illustrationer, bland annat för Keysers vapenbok.
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Porträtt, drottning Kristina.
Porträtt, Karl X Gustav.
Keysers vapenbok.
Panorama över Stockholm.
Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.
Filkmåla, Altriplex hastatum - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
Olaus Magnus text till den berömda kartan "Carta Marina".
Texten finns även på katalanska, spanska och engelska.
Bureus karta över norden
Kartor och atlaser
Bilder och planschverk
Teckenförklaringar
Porträtt på Gerard Mercator och Jodocus Hondius.
"Striking image showing Mercator and Hondius in their idealized workshop.
This famous portrait of two of the most important mapmakers during the Golden Age of Dutch cartography was engraved by Coletta Hondius, as a tribute to her late husband, shortly after his death. Gerard Mercator is shown with his successor, Jodocus Hondius, seated at a table surrounded by the implements of their trade. The fine portrait is set within an elaborate strapwork framework that includes a wall map of Europe.
Gerard Mercator is renowned as the cartographer who created a world map representing new projections of sailing courses of constant bearing as straight lines—an innovation which, to this day, enhances the simplicity and safety of navigation. In his own day, Mercator was the world's most famous geographer. He created a number of wall maps early in his career, as well as one of the earliest modern world Atlases in 1595. Although this was the first appearance of the word Atlas in a geographical context, Mercator used it as a neologism for a treatise on the creation, history and description of the universe, not simply a collection of maps. He chose the word as a commemoration of King Atlas of Mauretania, whom he considered to be the first great geographer.
Jodocus Hondius was a Dutch engraver and cartographer. He is best known for his early maps of the New World and Europe and for continuing publication of Gerard Mercator's World Atlas. He also helped establish Amsterdam as the center of cartography in Europe in the 17th century. In England, Hondius publicized the work of Francis Drake, who had made a circumnavigation of the world in the late 1570s. In 1604, he purchased the plates of Gerard Mercator's Atlas from Mercator's grandson and continued publication of the Atlas, adding his own maps over the next several decades. Hondius later published a pocket version Atlas Minor."
