1804-71. Född i Kirkhill, död i Yorkshire.
Skotsk kartograf. Han utmärkte sig som kartgravör och etablerade 1826 tillsammans med sin bror William Johnston (se denne) ett kartförlag i Edinburgh. Deras firma var väl ansedd och utgav under årens lopp en rad stora och mindre atlaser, såväl generella som specialiserade, bl.a. historiska, fysiska och astronomiska atlaser. 1851 fick han medalj för en jordglob som visade den fysiska geografin, den första i sitt slag. Medlem av en rad geografiska sällskap i Storbritannien och andra länder. En av hans söner, med samma namn, förde verksamheten vidare.
Dict. nat. biogr.
Keere, Pieter van den [Kaerius, Petrus]
1571-c. 1646.
Pieter van den Keere was one of a number of refugees who fled from religious persecution in the Low Countries between the years 1570 and 1 590. He moved to London in 1584 with his sister who married Jodocus Hondius, also a refugee there, and through Hondius he undoubtedly learned his skills as an engraver and cartographer. In the course of a long working life he engraved a large number of individual maps for prominent cartographers of the day but he also produced an Atlas of the Netherlands (1617-22) and county maps of the British Isles which have become known as Miniature Speeds, a misnomer which calls for some explanation.
In about 1599 he engraved plates for 44 maps of the English and Welsh counties, the regions of Scotland and the Irish provinces. The English maps were based on Saxton, the Scottish on Ortelius and the Irish on the famous map by Boazio. These maps were not published at once in book form but there is evidence which suggests a date of issue (in Amsterdam) between 1605 and 1610 although at...
Bland arbeten.
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.
Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
Olvon, Viburnum opulus - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
