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...
HENRIK SJÖFARAREN, HENRIQUE EL NAVEGADÔR.
1394-1460.
Portugisk prins som runt 1430 lät inrätta ett kartografiskt centrum i södra Portugal. Var 'den store vägrödjaren som slutade med upptäckandet av sjövägen till Indien.'
Svensk uppslagsbok.
, holländsk kartograf i slutet av 1600-talet. 1661 utgav han i Amsterdam ett sjökartverk, 'Klaer lichtende Noort-Steer ofte Zee Atlas'. Den blev utgiven på nytt 1666 och 1668 i samarbete med J. Janssonius van Waesberghe. I övrigt är han känd för olika kartor, Janssonius atlas 1666, Moses Pitts 1680, N. Visschers 'Atlas Minor' ca 1690 och för van Keulens 'Zee-Atlas' 1695. - Övriga upplysningar ej hittade.
Joannes van Loon was an accomplished mathematician and astronomer. His first cartographic involvement's were with Theunis Jacobsz during the 1640s.
Van Loon was a mathematician and engraver who contributed charts and maps to various pilot books and sea atlases by Jacobsz, Jan Jansson, Johannes J anssonius van Waesbergen and Robijn. In 1661he published a sea atlas which was popular until the end of the century.
Bland arbeten.
Klaer lichtende Noort-Steer ofte Zee Atlas.
Atlas Minor.
Zee-Atlas.
Phillips.
Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936
'A Draught of the Baltic from the Isle of Oeland to Reval including Gothland, Riga.' - John Norris 1728.
