1748-1804.
Kopparstickare, f. 1748 i Södermanland, d. 1804 i Stockholm, tillhörande släkten Achrelius (se d. o.). Under studenttiden i Upsala var han elev af globtillverkaren A. Åkerman, och 1773 gjorde han en studieresa till Paris, men måste redan följande år af brist på medel återvända till Sverige. Han blef 1776 gravör vid Vetenskaps-akademien och några år därefter föreståndare för Kosmografiska sällskapets globtillverkning samt ledamot af Konstakademien. Globtillverkning och kartritning voro A:s hufvuduppgifter, och hans i flere afseenden förbättrade glober funno god afsättning både inom och utom fäderneslandet. Dessutom utvecklade han Flodings manér att dels med stickeln, dels med torr nål underhjälpa etsningen, men hans arbeten förråda ofta ett handtverksmässigt utförande.
Bland arbeten.
Bland hans gravyrer märkas porträtt af Gustaf III, Ehrenstrahl, Stiernhielm, Linné och K. G. Tessin.
Nordisk Familjebok, Uggleupplagan.
1862-1948. Född i Bergen, död i Oslo.
Norsk officer. Började studera 1882, blev officer 1889 och kapten i 'Bergenske Brigade' 1897. 1916 tog han avsked. Under åren 1895-99 var han mättekniker vid 'Norges Geografiska Oppmåling'. Till Norges jubileumsutställning 1914 utförde han ett par stora reliefkartor. Han var även målare och bildhuggare och deltog i flera utställningar och tävlingar. Under en tid ledde han Bergens konstförening.
ca 1705-1765.
A successful publisher in Amsterdam who produced extensive volumes of Dutch town plans as well as a number of atlases with maps usually based on those of G. Delisle.
Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.
Surtorn, Berberis vulgaris - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
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."