Caspar Henne(n)berg(er) (sometimes also 'Kaspar'.
1529 – 29 February 1600.
Was a German Lutheran pastor, historian and cartographer.
Hennenberger was born in a Franconian place given as Erlich (Erlichhausen?) and started to study Lutheran divinity at the University of Königsberg in 1550. In 1554 he began to work at the congregation of Georgenau and in Domnau. Probably in 1561 he moved to Mühlhausen, where he worked as a Lutheran Pastor for the next 29 years.
With the patronage of Duke Albert of Prussia Hennenberger published the first detailed map of Prussia in 1576, the book 'Kurze und wahrhaftige Beschreibung des Landes zu Preussen' (short and truthful description of the land Prussia) in 1584 and 'Erklärung der preußischen größeren Landtafeln oder Mappen' (explanation of the larger Prussian maps) in 1594.
In 1590 Hennenberger became the Pastor of the Large Hospital at Königsberg-Löbenicht, where he died in 1600. He was buried in the Hospital's Church.
Bland arbeten.
Kurze und wahrhaftige Beschreibung des Landes zu Preussen.
Erklärung der preußischen größeren Landtafeln oder Mappen.
1722-1804. Född i Orlunda, död i Fliseryd.
Svensk sjöofficer. Blev löjtnant vid amiralitetet 1750 men gick strax därefter i utländsk örlogstjänst. 1755 återvände han till den svenska flottan som kapten, 1766 blev han kommandörkapten och 1772 konteramiral. Adlad 1756. Var från 1758 knuten till det svenska kustmätningsarbetet. 1772-97 direktör för sjökartverket. Ett resultat av hans verksamhet var den så kallade 'Nordenankars atlas' som utkom 1782-97. Han författade den första svenska läroboken i navigation (1756). Medlem av Vetenskapsakademien i Stockholm.
In 1773, Rear Admiral Johan Nordenankar was appointed director of maps, directly under the royal court. The maps were engraved by Fredric Akrel and Eric Åkerland.
Bland arbeten.
Nordenankars atlas.
Lönborg, s. 183ff. - Sv. män och kv. Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.
Cartographer.
Bland arbeten.
Fluvii Albis (Elbe) nov. delin. 1628, used by Hondius & Blaeu.
Tooley.
Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936
Krusbär, Ribes grossularia - 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."
