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THORLAKSSON, GUDBRANDUR.

1541-1627.
Matematiker, kartograf, rektor i Skálholt och biskop i Hólar. Utbildad i Hólars katedralskola och sedan på Köpenhamns universitet. Utnämndes till biskop 1570 med uppgiften att driva igenom protestantismen på norra Island. Thorlaksson förblev biskop i Hólar till sin död 20 juli 1627. Thorlaksson redigerade och publicerade minst 80 böcker under sin tid som biskop, bland annat första bibeln på isländska 1584 och den isländska lagboken. Han gjorde även den första användbara kartan över Island 1590, en karta som kom att kopieras under stor del av 1600-talet av alla stora kartografer.
Bland arbeten.
Island, 1570, använd av Ortelius 1595 och Blaeu 1643. Celestial globe, 1575. Norse discoveries America, 1606, manuskript.


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HAMMER, CHRISTOPHER BLIX.

1720-1804. Född och död i Gran.
Norsk ämbetsman och naturhistoriker. Började 1738 att studera och läste olika ämnen under ett antal år. 1750 blev han anställd av den stora bok- och kartsamlaren greve Joh. L. Holstein för att måla grevskapet Ledreborg vid Roskilde. 1752 utnämnd till generalkonduktör vid Akershus stift. Han hade titeln kansliråd, senare justitieråd. Medlem av "Det kgl. Videnskabers Selskab" i Trondheim och "Det kgl. danske Landhusholdningsselskab". - Av hans författarskap, som framförallt omfattar naturhistoriska avhandlingar, kan nämnas "Indbydelse til de Norske Karter", en uppfodring att sända honom kartor och dokument som stöd för ett påtänkt norskt kartverk (1766), samt "Subscriptions Plan Till En Norsk Atlas eller Land-Beskrivelse over Kongeriget Norge" (1773). Detta verk blev emellertid aldrig utgivet. Sina samlingar, däribland en betydande kartsamling, och en stor del av sin förmögenhet testamenterade han till "Videnskabsselskabet" i Trondheim.
Bland arbeten.
Subscriptions Plan Till En Norsk Atlas eller Land-Beskrivelse over Kongeriget Norge. Indbydelse til de Norske Karter.


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Middleton, Christopher.


Middleton, previously a captain in the employ of The Hudson Bay Company, was financed by Arthur Dobbs to explore the north-western extremities of Hudson Bay in search of a north-western passage. The expedition, from 1741-42, should have disproved notions of such a passage, but the increasingly delusional Dobbs convinced himself that Middleton had deliberately falsified his findings, and mounted an attack on the captain’s integrity, using a series of rather dubious maps distorted to support his viewpoint. Middleton’s chart over Hudson Bay, published before the eruption of the controversy, is of great importance as the attempt at an accurate survey of the west coast of Hudson Bay (Cumming et al, Exploration of North America, p. 188), and the only reliable printed cartographic record of the captain’s discoveries. Surprisingly, the chart was not included in Middleton’s book defending his reputation, and is now rare.
Bland arbeten.
Hudson Bay.


Sotheby's" "10529


Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936


Ahvenanmeri - Ålands hav. - Finland 1924.

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PENNANT, THOMAS.

Biografiska uppgifter:June 14, 1726 - December 16, 1798.
Was a Welsh naturalist and antiquary. The Pennants were a Welsh gentry family from the parish of Whitford, Flintshire, who had built up a modest estate at Bychton by the seventeenth century. In 1724 Thomas' father, David Pennant, also inherited the neighbouring Downing estate from a cousin, considerably augmenting the family's fortune. Downing Hall, where Thomas was born in the 'yellow room', became the main Pennant residence. Pennant received his early education at Wrexham grammar school, before moving to Thomas Croft's school in Fulham in 1740. In 1744 entered Queen's College, Oxford, later moving to Oriel College. Like many students from a wealthy background, he left Oxford without taking a degree, although in 1771 his work as a zoologist was recognised with an honorary degree. At the age of twelve, Pennant later recalled, he had been inspired with a passion for natural history through being presented with Francis Willughby's Ornithology. A tour in Cornwall in 1746-1747, where he met the antiquary and naturalist William Borlase, awakened an interest in minerals and fossils which formed his main scientific study during the 1750s. In 1750, his account of an earthquake at Downing was inserted in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, where there also appeared in 1756 a paper on several coralloid bodies he had collected at Coalbrookdale, Shropshire. More practically, Pennant used his geological knowledge to open a lead mine, which helped to finance improvements at Downing after he inherited in 1763. In 1757, at the instance of Carolus Linnaeus, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences. In 1766 he published the first part of his British Zoology, a work meritorious rather as a laborious compilation than as an original contribution to science. During its progress he visited the continent and made the acquaintance of Buffon, Voltaire, Haller and Pallas. In 1767 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1771 his Synopsis of Quadrupeds was published; it was later expanded into a History of Quadrupeds. At the end of the same year he published A Tour in Scotland in 1769, which proved remarkably popular and was followed in 1774 by an account of another journey in Scotland, in two volumes. These works have proved invaluable as preserving the record of important antiquarian relics which have now perished. In 1778 he brought out a similar Tour in Wales, which was followed by a Journey to Snowdon (part one in 1781; part two in 1783), afterwards forming the second volume of the Tour. In 1782 he published a Journey from Chester to London. He brought out Arctic Zoology in 1785-1787. In 1790 appeared his Account of London, which went through a large number of editions, and three years later he published the autobiographical Literary Life of the late T. Pennant. In his later years he was engaged on a work entitled Outlines of the Globe, volumes one and two of which appeared in 1798, and volumes three and four, edited by his son David Pennant, in 1800. He was also the author of a number of minor works, some of which were published posthumously. He died at Downing. The correspondence he received from Gilbert White was the basis for White's book The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. Unfortunately Pennant's letters to White have been lost.
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