Ca. 1664-1721.
Holländsk bokhandlare, son till Hendrick Doncker (se denne).
Död 1818.
Engelsk kartförläggare. Tillsammans med Robert Laurie (se denne) övertog han 1794 Robert Sayers (se denne) konsthandel och kartföretag i London. Under firmanamnet R. Laurie & J. Whittle utgav de en rad atlasverk som 'A new elegant imperial sheet atlas' (1798), 'The complete East India pilot' (1800) och 'A new juvenile atlas'. Då Laurie drog sig tillbaka från företaget 1812 blev firmanamnet ändrat till Whittle & Laurie.
Bland arbeten.
'A new elegant imperial sheet atlas.
The complete East India pilot.
A new juvenile atlas.
Dict. nat. biogr. - Phillips.
Doppelmayr, an acclaimed astronomer, was born in Nuremberg in 1671. He was a member of the Royal Society of London and the Academies of Berlin, Vienna and St. Petersburg.
It is not surprising that Dopplemayr collaborated with Germany’s leading map publisher Johann Baptist Homann on both the terrestrial and celestial maps included in this atlas. He visited astronomers in many countries and hence in addition to the star charts and selenographic map, the atlas includes “diagrams illustrating the planetary system of Copernicus, Tycho, and Riccilio; the ecliptic theories of Kepler, Bouliaeu, Seth Ward and Mercator; the lunar theories of Tycho, Horrocks and Newton, and Halley’s cometary theory” (DSB IV, p. 166).
Bland arbeten.
Atlas novus Coelestis. Nuremberg: Homann’s Heirs, 1742.
First edition, folio (560 x 390mm), engraved allegorical additional titles (plain), title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved index listing 30 subjects and 30 double-page engraved celestial charts and diagrams, some incorporating miniature world maps or spandrel illustrations of astronomical observatories, in contemporary hand colour and wash.
Sotheby's
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
