'A fine full figure portrait of the swedish king Karl XIV Johan (Jean Baptiste Bernadotte) executed by Sweden´s finest engraver Christian Forssell. This is the best of his swedish work. Forssell worked for many years in Amsterdam and Paris and had a fine reputation as an engraver. Among other things he oversaw the production of the engravings to Napoleon´s great work on Egypt. The present engraving is an iconic image of the king executed after the french painter Francois Gerard´s original oil painting.'
Hammarlund.
BOUVET, JEAN BAPTISTE CHARLES DE LOZIER.
1705-86.
Fransk sjöofficer. 1738-39 ledde han en fransk expedition med fregatterna 'L'Aigle' och 'Marie' som skulle utforska området vid Sydpolen. På 54:e breddgraden upptäckte han ett nytt land, 'Cap de la Circoncision', som han trodde var en del av Terra Australia. Det landet fick sedan namnet Bouvetön. Bouvet var den förste som seglade längs packisen och kunde berätta om de otaliga stora valar han såg i dessa farvattnen.
Agaard. - Nr. 80.
1748-1820. Född 27 febr. 1748 i Tensta socken, Uppland, död 9 aug. 1820 i Stockholm.
Naturforskare, forskningsresande, studerade i Uppsala som Linnés lärjunge och fick vid 17 års ålder som skeppsläkare medfölja ett af Ostindiska kompaniets fartyg till Indien 1765-67. Efter medicinsk examen 1770 antog S. ett anbud att göra en forskningsresa i Kap-landet, och i egenskap af lärare i en högre tjänstemans hus erhöll han tillträde till detta land. Han vistades där under en del af 1772 samt 1775-76 och var under mellantiden, nov. 1772- mars 1775, vetenskaplig medlem af Cooks andra resa i Söderhafvet och Södra ishaf-vet. Han promoverades frånvarande till med. doktor i Uppsala 1775 och blef efter hemkomsten led. af Vet. akad. 1776; han innehade 1778-98 förordnandet att ha tillsyn öfver akademiens naturaliekabinett. Jämte K. A. Arrhenius och K. B. Wadström företog S. 1787-88 en resa till Senegaltrakten i Väst-Afrika med uppdrag att där utse plats för en svensk koloni, ett syfte, som dock ej uppnåddes. S. blef 1790 professor i naturalhistoria och farmakologi och 1803 assessor i Collegium medicum och var...
Bland arbeten.
'Charta öfver Calmar län samt Öland...' - 1796.
Chart Cape of Good Hope 1779, 1785.
Charac-teres generum plantarum', 'Florulse insularum australium prodromus.
Tooley.Nordisk familjebok. 2:a upplagan.
Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936
Aminoff - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1900.
Porträtt på Gerard Mercator och Jodocus Hondius.
"Striking image showing Mercator and Hondius in their idealized workshop.
This famous portrait of two of the most important mapmakers during the Golden Age of Dutch cartography was engraved by Coletta Hondius, as a tribute to her late husband, shortly after his death. Gerard Mercator is shown with his successor, Jodocus Hondius, seated at a table surrounded by the implements of their trade. The fine portrait is set within an elaborate strapwork framework that includes a wall map of Europe.
Gerard Mercator is renowned as the cartographer who created a world map representing new projections of sailing courses of constant bearing as straight lines—an innovation which, to this day, enhances the simplicity and safety of navigation. In his own day, Mercator was the world's most famous geographer. He created a number of wall maps early in his career, as well as one of the earliest modern world Atlases in 1595. Although this was the first appearance of the word Atlas in a geographical context, Mercator used it as a neologism for a treatise on the creation, history and description of the universe, not simply a collection of maps. He chose the word as a commemoration of King Atlas of Mauretania, whom he considered to be the first great geographer.
Jodocus Hondius was a Dutch engraver and cartographer. He is best known for his early maps of the New World and Europe and for continuing publication of Gerard Mercator's World Atlas. He also helped establish Amsterdam as the center of cartography in Europe in the 17th century. In England, Hondius publicized the work of Francis Drake, who had made a circumnavigation of the world in the late 1570s. In 1604, he purchased the plates of Gerard Mercator's Atlas from Mercator's grandson and continued publication of the Atlas, adding his own maps over the next several decades. Hondius later published a pocket version Atlas Minor."