SÖK KARTOGRAFER, GRAVÖRER M.FL.

BURE(US), ANDERS (ANDREAS).

1571-1646. Född i Säbrå, död i Stockholm.
Svensk ämbetsman och kartograf. Han började som kanslitjänsteman, men arbetade vid sidan om med genelogiska, astronomiska och kartografiska studier. 1602 deltog han i kartläggningen av Stockholm, 1619-20 vid gränsdragningen mellan Finland och Ryssland. 1623 fick han överinseende för det offentliga byggväsendet i Sverige och år 1628 blev han utnämnd att organisera det svenska lantmäteriet samt fick med denna ställning ett grundläggande inflytande över utvecklingen av det svenska lantmäteriväsendet. Han blev senare assessor vid krigskollegiet och krigsråd. - Som kartograf fick han 1603 i uppdrag av Karl IX att kartlägga Sverige och Finland. Resultatet framlades år 1611 med kartan 'Lapponiae. Bothaniae Cajaniaeque regni Suecie provinciarum septentrionalium nova delineatio'. Med stöd från Gustav Adolf fortsatte han sitt kartläggningsarbete och gav 1626 ut 'Orbis Arctoi nova et accurata delineatio', ett verk på 6 blad i förhållandevis litet format. Första utgåvan finns idag bara i ett fåtal exemplar. Hans kartor ...
Bland arbeten.
Lapponiae. Bothaniae Cajaniaeque regni Suecie provinciarum septentrionalium nova delineatio, 1611, sannolikt grav. av B.
Orbis Arctoi nova et accurata delineatio.

Hultmark, 1944.Lönborg, s. 10-16. - Orbis. - Sv. män och kv.Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin

Cassini de Thury, César-François

17 June 1714 – 4 September 1784
César-François Cassini de Thury (17 June 1714 – 4 September 1784), also called Cassini III or Cassini de Thury, was a French astronomer and cartographer.
Cassini de Thury was born in Thury-sous-Clermont (Oise), the second son of Jacques Cassini and Suzanne Françoise Charpentier de Charmois. He was a grandson of Giovanni Domenico Cassini, and would become the father of Jean-Dominique Cassini, Comte de Cassini.
In 1735, he became a member of the French Academy of Sciences as a supernumerary adjunct astronomer, in 1741 as an adjunct astronomer, and in 1745 as a full member astronomer.
In January, 1751 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
He succeeded to his father’s official position in 1756 and continued the hereditary surveying operations. In 1744, he began the construction of a great topographical map of France, one of the landmarks in the history of cartography. Completed by his son Jean-Dominique, Cassini IV and published by the Académie des Sciences from 1744 to 1793, its 180 plates ar...

BOWLES, JOHN.

Engelsk kartförläggare i mitten av 1700-talet. Han gav troligen inte ut någon hel atlas, men däremot en rad enkla kartor. 1753 gav John Bowles & Son ut 'A catalogue of Maps, Prints, Copy-Books, etc. '


Bland arbeten.
A catalogue of Maps, Prints, Copy-Books, etc.

Brown, s. 354. - Tooley.

Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.

Vaksala härad. 1861.

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.]
Bland arbeten:
'The Globes Celestial and Terrestrial Set Forth in Plano'

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