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REILLY, FRANZ JOHANN JOSEPH von.


Österrikisk kartograf under senare delen av 1700-talet. 1789-91 gav han ut en atlas 'Grosser deutscher Atlas' som omfattade hela världen, och 1799 'Atlas univers' som endast omfattade Europa.

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Grosser deutscher Atlas.
Atlas univers.


Phillips.

WESTENBURG, (JOANNE).


Doctor Medicine & Mathematics, cartographer,



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Bentheim Blaeu 1635, 1649 & 1662;
Bentheim, Hondius 1633.


Tooley.

Felice, Fortunato Bartolomeo de.

(1723-1789), 2nd Greve av Panzutti, italiensk adelsman, författare, vetenskapsman och en av 1700-talets viktigaste utgivare.
Fortunato Felice var äldst av en syskonskara av sex i en Napolitansk familj i Rom. Efter studier hos Jesuiterna i Rom och Neapel så prästvigdes han 28 maj 1746. Under studierna i klostret San Francesco i Ripa upptäckte han och förälskade sig i fysiken samt blev vän med Celestino Galiani. Densamme gav senare Fortunato Felice de bägge professorsstolarna i antik och modern geografi samt experimentell fysik och matematik vid universitetet i Neapel.

Felice gifte sig med grevinnan Panzutti 1756 och blev därmed den andra greven av Panzutti då grevinnan överlät titeln i enlighet med den förste grevens testamente. De religiösa myndigheterna såg inte på detta med blida ögon och paret tvingades fly till Schweiz där grevinnan avled 1759. Felice gifte då om sig med en schweizisk kvinna för att behålla sitt Schweiziska medborgarskap, konverterade till protestantismen och klippte alla band med Italien.

Felice grundade 1762 ett förlag i Yverdon och kom att ge ut flera vetenskapliga verk, kulmen kom under åren 1...
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Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.


Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936


Finlands sydkust. Borgå - Fredrikshamn. - Stockholm 1921.

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Molyneux, Emery.

Biografiska uppgifter:Död i juni 1598.
Emery Molyneux was an English Elizabethan maker of globes, mathematical instruments and ordnance. His terrestrial and celestial globes, first published in 1592, were the first to be made in England and the first to be made by an Englishman.
Molyneux was known as a mathematician and maker of mathematical instruments such as compasses and hourglasses. He became acquainted with many prominent men of the day, including the writer Richard Hakluyt and the mathematicians Robert Hues and Edward Wright. He also knew the explorers Thomas Cavendish, Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh and John Davis. Davis probably introduced Molyneux to his own patron, the London merchant William Sanderson, who largely financed the construction of the globes. When completed, the globes were presented to Elizabeth I. Larger globes were acquired by royalty, noblemen and academic institutions, while smaller ones were purchased as practical navigation aids for sailors and students. The globes were the first to be made in such a way that they were unaffected by the humidity at sea, and they came into general use on ships.
Molyneux emigrated to Amsterdam with his wife in 1596 or 1597. He succeeded in interesting the States-General, the parliament of the United Provinces, in a cannon he had invented, but he died suddenly in June 1598, apparently in poverty. The globe-making industry in England died with him.
Only six of his globes are believed still to be in existence. Three are in England, of which one pair consisting of a terrestrial and a celestial globe is owned by Middle Temple and displayed in its library, while a terrestrial globe is at Petworth House in Petworth, West Sussex.

Molyneux accompanied Francis Drake on his 1577–1580 circumnavigation of the world; as Ubaldini reported, '[h]e himself has been in those seas and on those coasts in the service of the same Drake'. A legend in Latin on the terrestrial globe, explaining why Molyneux had left out the polar lands and corrected the distance across the Atlantic Ocean between The Lizard and Cape Race in Newfoundland, concluded:
'Quod equide[m] effeci tu[m] ex meis navigationibus primo, tum deinceps ex felici illa sub clariss. Fran. Drako ad Indos Occident, expeditione, in qua non modo optimas quasqu[e] alioru[m] descriptiones, sed quidquid mea quantulacu[m]que, vel scie[n]ta vel experientia ad integru[m] hoc qui[n]quen[n]io pr[a]estare potuit, ad hujus operis perfectione[m] co[m]paravi ...' [I have been able to do this both in the first place from my own voyages and secondly from that successful expedition to the West Indies under the most illustrious Francis Drake: in which expedition I have put together not only all the best delineations of others, but everything my own humble knowledge or experience has been able to furnish in the last five years to the perfecting of this work.]
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'The Globes Celestial and Terrestrial Set Forth in Plano'

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