KARTOGRAFI OCH BILDLORE

LAUREMBERG, JOHANNES WILHELM [WILMS].

1590-1658.
From Rostock. Author, mathematician, historian.

Bland arbeten.
Mecklenburg, used by Blaeu 1630 and Hondius 1633,
Macedonia 1647,
Sea Atlas Greece and Aegean 1650,
Cyclades 1662,
Atlas Graecia Antiqua 1656.

Tooley.

CARPELAN, WILHELM MAXIMILIAN.

Född 1787 7/1 på Ojamo i Lojo sn (Nyland), död 1830 19/5 i Stock (Finska förs.).
Överstelöjtnant. Kartograf. Landskapsmålare och etsare. Son av löjtnanten Axel Maximilian C. och Barbro Elisabeth Toll. Deltog som fältmätningsofficer i finska kriget 1808-09. Tjänstgjorde 1819-24 som adjutant hos riksståthållaren i Norge J. A. Sandels och företog under denna tid talrika resor. Chef för graveringskontoret vid Ingenjörskåren 1826.




Bland arbeten.
Karta över belägenheten omkring Stockholm 1817.
G. M. CARPELAN, Vues norvégiennes, I-II, Sthlm 1826-27: 8 utsikter, akvatinter.
Karta över Djurgården. 1829.
D. K. W. BAUMGARTEN-CRUSIUS, Schweiz’s historia, Strängnäs 1833: titelblad, akvatint.

Hultmark, 1944.

SANSON, GUILLAUME.

Död 1703.
Fransk geograf, son till Nicolas Sanson (se denne). Tillsammans med sin bror Adrien Sanson (se denne) fortsatte han sin fars arbete och utgav flera av hans verk på nytt. Av egna arbeten kan nämnas 'Introduction ā la géographie' i 3 band (1681) och olika avhandlingar i tidskrifter. Bägge bröderna hade titeln 'Géographe du Roi'. Familjens samarbete med Pierre Mariette verkar ha upphört omkring 1670. Istället övertogs det av Hubert Jaillot (se denne).

Bland arbeten.
Introduction ā la géographie.

Nouv. biogr. gen.

Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.

'Stockholms skärgård. Växlet - Stockholm - Sandhamn'. - Stockholm 1932.

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."

Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.