Bland arbeten.
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.
PHIPPS, CONSTANTINE JOHN, BARON MULGRAVE.
1744-92. Född på Irland, död i Liège.
Engelsk sjöofficer. 16 år gammal gick han in i marinen och blev efter några år löjtnant och senare kapten. 1773 ledde han en expedition som skulle söka en nordlig sjöförbindelse till Indien. Expeditionen kom inte längre än till Svalbard där den tvingades vända på grund av packisen. Hans bok om denna resa, 'A voyage towards the North Pole' utkom 1774 och blev även översatt till andra språk. 1778 deltog Phipps i kriget mot Frankrike. Senare arbetade han med administration av den indiska handeln och plantagedriften. Sedan 1777 var han medlem av parlamentet.
Bland arbeten.
A voyage towards the North Pole.
Dict. nat. biogr.
Född 1787 27/10 i Stockholm (Ad. Fredr.), död 1853 17/5 i samma stad (Hedv. El).
Gravör. Son av trädgårdsmästaren Nils H. och Catharina Lind. Elev vid Konstakademien, där han erhöll en tredjemedalj 1805. Blev 1846 4/9 omyndigförklarad och ställd under bokhållaren Gustaf Himbergs fömynderskap.
Bland arbeten.
N. G. WERMING, Kartor öfver svenska städer, u. o. [1806-19]: 3 blad, bl.a. Belägenheten af Falkenberg, 1813, och Belägenheten af Ängelholm, 1815. (Hultmark, 1944.)
Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936
Piggtistel, Carduus Acanthoides L. - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
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."