1632-94. Född i Sachsen, död i Berlin.
Tysk-svensk historiker. Han studerade rättsvetenskap och filosofi i Leipzig och Jena, tog magistergraden 1656 och blev 1661 professor vid universitetet i Heidelberg. 1667 kallad att bli professor i natur- och folkrätt i Lund, och 1677 utnämnd till svensk rikshistoriograf. Han utgav en rad juridiska och historiska skrifter. Av störst intresse i detta sammanhang är det stora verk om Karl X Gustaf, 'De rebus a Carolo Gustavo, Sueciae regis, gestis commentariorum libri septem' som kom 1696. Verket är illustrerat med en mängd kartor och bilder i kopparstick.
Bland arbeten.
De rebus a Carolo Gustavo, Sueciae regis, gestis commentariorum libri septem.
Sv. män och kv.
Dupuy de Bordes, Henri-Sébastien
Bland arbeten.
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.
1637-1697.
Kartograf och biskop i Skálholt. Barnbarn till Gudbrandur Thorlaksson, troligen på fädernet. Intresserad av astronomi och geografi vilket återspeglas i de astronomiska bilder han gjorde samt i de kartor över Island som han producerade, bland annat en manuskriptkarta från 1670. Thorlaksson gav även ut den första tryckta upplagan av Landnámabók 1688.
Han var gift med Gudridur Gisladottir.
Bland arbeten.
Kopierade 'Norse map' och ritade 'Stars' 1668, använd av Torfaeus 'Gronlandia antiqua' 1706.
'Island' 1670, manuskript.
Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.
Heraldischer Atlas, Tavla 45 - H. G. Ströhl 1899.
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."
