KARTOGRAFI OCH BILDLORE

d'ANVILLE, JEAN-BAPTISTE BOURGUIGNON.

1697-1782. Född och död i Paris.
Fransk geograf, Redan i sin tidigaste ungdom ägnade han sig åt geografiska och antika studier. 15 år gammal utarbetade han en karta över det gamla Hellas. 1727 gav han ut en karta över Afrika som följdes av 'Atlas de la Chine'. En 'Geographie Ancienne' kom i en rad utgåvor på olika språk fram till 1815, flera år efter hans död. Han utarbetade ett flertal kartor från alla jordens hörn, utgivna i samlingar utan speciella titelblad. Medlem av 'L'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres och L'Académie royale des sciences.'


Bland arbeten.
Atlas de la Chine.
Geographie Ancienne.

Nouv. biogr. gen. - Philips.

LANGREN [LANGEREN], MICHAEL FLORIS van [MICHAELIS FLORENT˙, FLORENTIO].

1612-1675.
Mathematician and astronomer to King of Spain. Lived in Brussels.
Gjorde även kartor till Blaeu redan 1631.

Bland arbeten.
Maps for Blaeu 1635: Brabant, Louvain, Antwerp, Mechlin.

Tooley.

JONGE, NICOLAI .

1727-89. Född i Köpenhamn, död i Alleslev.
Dansk präst. Började studera 1745 och tog en teologiexamen 1747. 1754 verkade han vid Holmens kyrka i Köpenhamn, och 1762 som sockenpräst i Alleslev i Prestö län. Han utvecklade ett rikt författarskap, särskilt i geografiska och historiska ämnen. En del av hans produktion bestod av läroböcker. Ett särskilt förtjänstfullt, men inte avslutat arbete, var 'Den kgl. Hoved- og Residentz-Stad Kiöbenhavns Beskrivelse' (1783).

Bland arbeten.
Den kgl. Hoved- og Residentz-Stad Kiöbenhavns Beskrivelse.

Bricka. - Ehrencron.

Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.

'Åmmebergs Zinkverk.' - Gustaf Pabst 1870-1879.

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.