1655-1694.
Direktör för lantmäteriet, tog initiativet till den första svenska Generalkartan.
At the age of 28, appointed director (later director-general) for the National Land Survey. Offices were a room at the royal palace, 'but in autumn, winter and spring, maps never could be stored there because of the moisture, snow and rain that drift in through the leaky walls'. Wrote poetry with same success - 200 years later the works were deemed 'currently unpalatable'. In the early 1690s worked on Stockholm's Outer archipelago, until then poorly represented on charts. For security reasons, the lise of maps was restricted. His maps first round real use a hundred years later as underpinning for Sweden's Marine Atlas (Sveriges Sjöatlas).
Bland arbeten.
Sveriges Sjöatlas.
Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.
CANTEMIR, PRINCE CONSTANTIN DIMITRI.
1673-1723.
Cartographer in Russian service.
Bland arbeten.
Moldavia 1716.
Constantinople 1720.
A contemporary unsigned English mezzotint portrait exists.
Tooley.
1720-1804. Född och död i Gran.
Norsk ämbetsman och naturhistoriker. Började 1738 att studera och läste olika ämnen under ett antal år. 1750 blev han anställd av den stora bok- och kartsamlaren greve Joh. L. Holstein för att måla grevskapet Ledreborg vid Roskilde. 1752 utnämnd till generalkonduktör vid Akershus stift. Han hade titeln kansliråd, senare justitieråd. Medlem av 'Det kgl. Videnskabers Selskab' i Trondheim och 'Det kgl. danske Landhusholdningsselskab'. - Av hans författarskap, som framförallt omfattar naturhistoriska avhandlingar, kan nämnas 'Indbydelse til de Norske Karter', en uppfodring att sända honom kartor och dokument som stöd för ett påtänkt norskt kartverk (1766), samt 'Subscriptions Plan Till En Norsk Atlas eller Land-Beskrivelse over Kongeriget Norge' (1773). Detta verk blev emellertid aldrig utgivet. Sina samlingar, däribland en betydande kartsamling, och en stor del av sin förmögenhet testamenterade han till 'Videnskabsselskabet' i Trondheim.
Bland arbeten.
Subscriptions Plan Till En Norsk Atlas eller Land-Beskrivelse over Kongeriget Norge.
Indbydelse til de Norske Karter.
Ehrencron.
Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.
Myrbräcka, Saxifraga hirculus - 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."
