KARTOGRAFI OCH BILDLORE

Colom, Jacob Aertsz.

1600-73 - ARNOLD COLOM (son) c. 1624-68
Jacob Colom was a printer, bookseller, chart and globe maker who set out to challenge the virtual monopoly held by W. J. Blaeu, then the only chart maker in Amsterdam. His Pilot Guide De Vyerighe Colom published in various formats and languages (with exotic tides) to meet the demands of the time was highly successful and forced Blaeu to revise and enlarge his existing chart books. In spite of Blaeu's efforts, Colom's Guide remained popular with seamen for many years and although the charts were issued in great quantity, they are now extremely rare.

Euler, Johann

Bland arbeten.
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.

VALLBERG [WALLBERG], MATHIAS JONAS.

Född 1737 i Vadstena, död 1808 i Linköping.
Son till föreg. Student 1754 (Linnés lärjunge). Examen 1756. Kom.-lantmätare. 1757. Ord. 1760. Förste lantmätare. 1802. Justerare. Ägde Klosterorlunda. Gift 1761 med (sin systers svägerska) Ingrid Margareta Ljunggren; en son, se nedan.
V. har sammandragit en karta öfver Östergötl., sedermera omarbetad af K. P. Hällström.




Bland arbeten.
'Charta öfver Östergötlands NordWästra Del. Efter påliteliga mätningar författad 1805 af M. Wallberg.'

Ekstrand - Svenska landtmätare.

Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734

Korp - Olof Rudbeck d.y.

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.