1757-1824.
Kartograf och kartförläggare.
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Kriegsschauplatz oder Graenzkarte zwischen Deutschland u. Franckreich... ca 1795.
Kâtip Çelebi, Mustafa bin Abdullah, Haji Khalifa or Kalfa, (1609, Istanbul – 1657 Istanbul)
Kâtip Celebi was an Ottoman scholar. A historian and geographer, he is regarded as one of the most productive authors of non-religious scientific literature in the 17th century Ottoman Empire. Among his best-known works is the Kashf al-?un?n ‘an as?m? al-kutub wa-al-fun?n, ('The Removal of Doubt from the Names of Books and the Arts'), a bibliographic encyclopaedia, written in Arabic, which lists more than 14,500 books in alphabetic order.
Life and works
The son of a soldier, he himself was a soldier for ten years until a heritage made him turn to a more contemplative life. As the accountant of the commissariat department of the Ottoman Army in Anatolia, he accompanied the Ottoman army in the campaign against Baghdad in 1625, was present at the siege of Erzurum, and returned to Istanbul in 1628. In the following year he was again in Baghdad and Hamadan, and in 1633-34 at Aleppo, whence he made the pilgrimage to Mecca (hence his title Hajji). The following year he was in Erivan and then returned to Consta...
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Cihannüma (The mirror of the world) Constantinople, Ibrahim Müteferrika, 1732. First edition.
This is the second work by Kâtip Celebi published in 1729. The author was a well known writer on history and geography and a bibliophile and in this work intended to publish a universal system of geography. In fact only part of the work (including the description of Asia Minor) was completed by Kâtip who used European and Arabic and Persian sources, and the whole was supplemented and edited by Ibrahim, who dedicated it to the grand vizir of Sultan Mahmud II, Ali Pasha.
The picture is showing the map of the Indian Ocean and the China Sea that was engraved in 1728 by the Hungarian-born Ottoman cartographer and publisher Ibrahim Müteferrika; it is one of a series that illustrated Katip Çelebi’s Cihannuma (Universal Geography), the first printed book of maps and drawings to appear in the Islamic world.
Född 1664 i Marstrand, död 1740 24/1 i Karlskrona.
Kommendör och lotsdirektör. Tecknare, kartograf och kopparstickare. Son av rådmannen Thorved Nilsson S. och Margareta Mattsdotter. Student i Köpenhamn och i Lund 1686. Lotsdirektör 1697, kommendör 1717. »Idkade som ung kopparstickskonsten» (Eichhorn) och var även flitigt verksam som kartograf. Adlades 1727.
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W. VON ROSENFELDT, Navigationen eller styrmans-konsten, Sthlm 1693: hydrografisk karta över Östersjön och Kattegatt med porträttmedaljong av~Hans Wachtmeister, kpst., samt 8 tab. med geometriska figurer, etsn.
Landstigningen på Själland 1700, kpst.
Hultmark, 1944.
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
Valö - 1880.
Frisius, Gemma. [Reinerszoon, Jemme.]
Biografiska uppgifter:9 december 1508 - 25 maj 1555.
Gemma Frisius was a physician, mathematician, cartographer, philosopher, and instrument maker. He created important globes, improved the mathematical instruments of his day and applied mathematics in new ways to surveying and navigation.
Frisius was born in Dokkum, Friesland (present-day Netherlands) of poor parents, who died when he was young. He moved to Groningen and studied at the University in Leuven beginning in 1525. He received the degree of MD in 1536 and remained on the faculty of medicine in Leuven for the rest of his life. His oldest son, Cornelius Gemma, edited a posthumous volume of his work and continued to work with Ptolemaic astrological models.
While still a student, Frisius set up a workshop to produce globes and mathematical instruments. He became noted for the quality and accuracy of his instruments, which were praised by Tycho Brahe, among others. In 1533, he described for the first time the method of triangulation still used today in surveying. Twenty years later, he was the first to describe how an accurate clock could be used to determine longitude. Jean-Baptiste Morin (1583–1656) did not believe that Frisius' method for calculating longitude would work, remarking, 'I do not know if the Devil will succeed in making a longitude timekeeper but it is folly for man to try.'
Frisius created or improved many instruments, including the cross-staff, the astrolabe and the astronomical rings. His students included Gerardus Mercator (who became his collaborator), Johannes Stadius, John Dee, Andreas Vesalius and Rembert Dodoens.
A lunar crater has been named after him.
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(Cosmographia (1529) von Petrus Apianus, annotated by Gemma Frisius)
De principiis astronomiae et cosmographiae (1530)
De usu globi (1530)
Libellus de locorum describendorum ratione (1533)
Arithmeticae practicae methodus facilis (1540)
De annuli astronomici usu (1540)
De radio astronomico et geometrico (1545)
De astrolabio catholico (1556)
