ORTELIUS (ORTELS, WORTELS), ABRAHAM.
1527-98. Född och död i Antwerpen.
Belgisk kartograf. Efter studier i grekiska, latin och matematik började han i 20-årsåldern som karthandlare. Först 1564 offentliggjorde han sitt första självständiga arbete, en världskarta på 8 blad (idag endast känt i ett exemplar). Ett antal mindre specialkartor utkom senare och 1570 lade han fram sitt främsta verk, 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' som betecknar en epok i kartografins historia. Det var den första systematiskt utarbetade kartsamlingen baserad på samtida forskningsresultat. Flera av den tidens främsta geografer var hans medarbetare. Första utgåvan av 'Theatrum' innehöll 70 kartor på 53 blad. Härtill kom under åren 1573-95, 5 supplement med totalt 108 kartor. Ortelius atlas trycktes redan första året i 4 utgåvor. Till 1612 utkom inte mindre än 43 folioutgåvor med text på 7 olika språk. Dessutom trycktes 31 utgåvor i förminskat format under åren 1576-1697. De historiska kartorna samlades i en egen atlas, 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Paregon; sive veteris Geographiae Tabulae' som även den kom i flera uppl...
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Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Paregon; sive veteris Geographiae Tabulae.
Catalogus auctorum.
1570 Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 1570-1612 Between these years the Theatrum was re-issued in 42 editions with 5 supplements with text in Latin, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Italian and English. The English edition was published in 1606 by John Norton, the maps being printed in Antwerp and the text added in London. Three years after Ortelius died in 1598, his heirs transferred publication rights to Jan Baptiste Vrients who produced the later editions until he died in 1612
1577-85 Spiegel der Werelt (8vo) Maps from the Theatrum, reduced in size, engraved by Philip Galle: text by Pieter Heyns. 6 editions with Dutch, French and Latin text. 1588-i 603 Epitome theatri orbis terrarum (12mo/8v0) 11 further editions of the smaller maps with an increasing number of maps with text also in Italian and English (1603). i6oi-i 2 7 further editions with improved engravings by Arsenius Brothers: text by Michel Coignet in Latin, French, German, Italian and English (1603). 1598-1724 Theatro del Mondo (4t0/12mo/24mo) 8 editions with Italian text; plates engraved in Italy.
1579-1606 Parergon Theatri The number of maps included in the Parergon increased from 4 in 1579 to 43 in 1606 with text in Latin, French, Italian, German and English (1606) 1624 Re-issued in Antwerp as a separate publication by Balthasar Moretus. This edition included a reproduction of the Peutinger table.
Bagrow. Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.
B. Smolenskoye, Vereysky district [now Moscow region], 1716-18; d. St Petersburg, 25 Feb 1770.
Russian draughtsman and engraver. He was the son of a priest, and from 1729 he studied at the St Petersburg Naval Academy. In August 1731 he was transferred to the instrument-making department of the Academy of Sciences, where he helped to make land-surveying instruments, including theodolites (a training that was of value when he later came to sketch views of St Petersburg); he also learnt how to carve moulds for dies under Georg Unfertsagt (1701-67); and he studied drawing under the two members of the Academy staff, Ottmar Elliger II and Elias Grimmel (1703-58). In June 1743 Makhayev was made director of the cartographic and die-carving section of the Academy, and he was employed there for the rest of his life. Together with his pupils he helped to produce the Atlas rossiyskoy imperii ('Atlas of the Russian Empire'; 1740s); in addition, he provided inscriptions for diplomas for honorary members of the Academy, for porcelain snuff-boxes and for a large silver shrine at the tomb of Aleksandr Nevsky (early 175...
Bagrow.
Engelsk bokhandel- och förlagsfirma grundlagd i London 1724 av Thomas Longman (se denne). Bland förlagets författare under den första tiden finner vi David Hume - en senare innehavare av Thomas Norton Longman (1771-1842). Under hans tid möter vi Walter Scott, Thomas Moore m.fl. Förlagets produktion spände även över kartor, men de verkar ha varit i mer begränsad skala. Under årens lopp har firman övertagit flera andra förlag. Under firmanamnet Longmans, Green & Co. driver det idag en världsomspännande verksamhet med filialer över hela det brittiska imperiet.
Dict. nat. biogr.
Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.
Kåltistel, Cirsium oleraceum - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
