CANTEMIR, PRINCE CONSTANTIN DIMITRI.
1673-1723.
Cartographer in Russian service.
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Moldavia 1716.
Constantinople 1720.
A contemporary unsigned English mezzotint portrait exists.
Tooley.
The first Buddhist world map printed in Japan and the prototype for all subsequent Buddhist world maps printed in Japan until the late nineteenth century. The author, Hotan (1654-1728) was a scholar-priest and founder of the Kegonji Temple in Kyoto. The earliest known example in Japan is the Gotenjiku Zu (Map of the Five Indies) by the priest Jukai dating from 1364 and now preserved in Horyuji Temple in Nara. However Hotan’s map was revolutionary in being the first printed Oriental map to introduce detailed Western cartographic information into this traditional Buddhist cosmological view and attempt to merge the two together into a comprehensible form. Europe is depicted as a series of islands in the upper left of the image whilst South America is likewise another island in the lower right of the image. Africa is omitted completely. China and Japan are clearly defined in the upper right of the map. The popularity of the map is evidenced by the fact that although the map is dated 1710, it was reissued unchange...
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Nantanbushu Bankoku Shoka No Zu [Map of the Universe as a result] [Kyoto: Uhei Bundaiken, Hoei 7 (1710)]
Sotheby's. Murogo & Unno, “The Buddhist World Map in Japan” in /M Xvi (1962); H. Cortazzi, “Island of gold, p.38 pl.48; Harley & Woodward, “The History of Cartography, 2.2, pp. 428ff and Fig. 11.59; Nanba, “Old Maps of Japan, p. 179 pl.8; K. Yamashita, “Japanese Maps of the Edo Period, pp. 32-33 ill.1.
Ca. 1665-ca. 1735.
Holländsk bokhandlare. Han omtalas 1691 som 'maatematische instrumentmaaker' i Amsterdam där han två år senare blev bokhandlare. Hans affär omfattade även konst- och karthandel. Han gav 1697 ut 'Het nieu en compleet Pas-kaert-Boeck van de Noord- en Oostzee'. Ca 1700 gav han ut en atlas med 36 kartor och 1719 'Nieuwe groote Spiegel'. 1721 utannonserade han ett stort, nytt 'Paskaert van de Straats Davids
A mathematical and nautical instrument maker, Loots also published manuals on navigation. For a time he was in partnership with an engraver, A de Winter, and an author of text books on charts, Claes de Vries, who had ambitions to publish a very large sea atlas of some 200 charts but this was never completed on the scale contemplated. Some of their charts were sold to Gerard van Keulen and others were used in a sea atlas published in 1697. Charts by Loots also appear in a number of other pilot books and sea atlases of the time.
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Het nieu en compleet Pas-kaert-Boeck van de Noord- en Oostzee.
Nieuwe groote Spiegel.
Paskaert van de Straats Davids.
Kleerkooper.
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
Polen. - Homanns Erben 1750.
