1750-1823.
He was an English geographer (mapmaker) and member of the Arrowsmith family of geographers. He moved to Soho Square, London from Winston, County Durham when about twenty years of age, and was employed by John Gary, the engraver and led for some years the office of hydrographer to the king. In January 1790 he made himself famous by his large chart of the world on Mercator projection. Four years later he published another large map of the world on the globular projection, with a companion volume of explanation. The maps of North America (1796) and Scotland (1807) are the most celebrated of his many later productions. He left two sons, Aaron and Samuel, the elder of whom was the compiler of the Eton Comparative Atlas, of a Biblical atlas, and of various manuals of geography.
The business was thus carried on in company with John Arrowsmith (1790-1873), nephew of the elder Aaron. In 1821, they published a more complete North American map from a combination of a maps obtained from the Hudson Bay Company and Aaro...
Bland arbeten.
First map of North America, 1790
A Map Exhibiting All the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America, January 1, 1795 (Other editions 1801, 1802, 1804 and 1816 featuring roads)
Chart of the South Pacific, 1798
A New Map of Africa, 1802
Map of Countries Round the North Pole, 1818
Ogden map (North America), 1821 (2nd edition : 1834)
1774-1836.
Svensk kartograf.
'Föddes i Ilmola socken af Wasa län i Finland, d. 27 Febr. 1774. Fadern, Carl H., var der då Pastors-Adjunct, men blef sedan Comminister. Modern var Anna Rein. Student i Åbo 1792, Phil. Mag. 1795, undergick derefter examen i Lagfarenheten och ingick i Bergs-Collegium, der han 1796 blef Auscultant och året derpå Geschworner. Förflyttades 1801 såsom Ingenieur till Landtmäteri-Contoiret; 1802 Premier Ingenieur, några år derefter Capitaine vid Sjömätningscorpsen samt 1809 Förman för Sjö-chart-archivet. Under tiden Ledamot i K. Strömrensningscomitéen, i hvilken egenskap han utförde många gagneliga förrättningar. När denna indrogs, blef H. 1827 Chef för Norra Canaldistrictet, samt 1830 Contoirschef för Expeditionerna. Sedan 1810 Major vid flottan, erhöll han 1826 Öfverste-Lieut:s n. h. o. v. R. W. O. 1818. Ledamot af K. Vet.-Akad. 1804, af K. Landtbr.-Akad. 1812, samt Förvaltare i Räkenskapsafdeln., af K. Krigs-Vet.-Akad. (der i flere år föredragande i Sjö-krigsvetenskapen), samt af K. Patrioti...
Biographi öfver C. P. Hällström i Vet.-Akad.Handl. 1838. Biografiskt lexikon öfver Namnkunnige Svenske Män. 1876. Ytterligare upplysningar finnes i "Svenska män och kvinnor". 1946. Band G-H s. 595-596.
Montanus, Petrus. [Pieter van den Berg]
ft. 1606.
A Dutch geographer, active in Amsterdam, who worked in association with his brother-in-law, J odocus Hondius, for whom he prepared the text of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas (1606 and later editions). The map noted below, attributed to Montanus, is the first separately printed one of Maryland; known as 'Lord Baltimore's Map' it was published by him to attract settlers to the colony.
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
Ankarsvärd - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1900.
GERRITSZ [GERARD, GERARDUS, GHERRITSZOON van ASSUM].
Biografiska uppgifter:Hessel 1581-1632.
Gerritsz was apprenticed to W. J. Blaeu as an engraver before starting in business on his own account. He worked closely with Petrus Plancius and his merit may be judged by the fact that he was appointed Cartographer to the Dutch East India Company in preference to Blaeu and subsequently held the same position in a newly formed West India Company. With the new company he came into touch with Johannes de
Laet for whom he prepared a number of new maps of America in the latter's Nieuwe Wereldt published in 1625. His most important early work was a chart showing Henry Hudson's discoveries in his voyage of 1610-11: it is the first to give an outline of Hudson's Bay and indicates Hudson's belief that he had found a way to the North West Passage.
Engraver, cartographer, publisher and bookseller, b. Assum, apprenticed as engraver to Blaeu, Cartographer to Dutch E. India Co. 1617, fl. 1607; from 1612 using sign 'in de Paskaert' or 'sub signo Tabulae Nauticae'. Addresses: (1) opt Water bij die oude Brug [1609], (2) by die Lienbaens Brugh [1616], (3) Nieuwe Zijds Voorburgwal [1624], (4) Doelestraat [1627-32].
Engraved 17 Netherlands (1608?, lost)
Gulick Cleve 1610,
Spain 1612-(15),
Besch. van de Samoyeden Landt 1612,
Besch. van de Zeecusten van Ierlandt 1612,
engd. Blaeu's Lithuania 1613,
Russia 1613,
Italy 1617,
MS charts E. Indies, Pacific & c. 1617-22,
maps in Laet's Novus Orbis 1625,
Eendrachts' Land (W. Australia) 1627,
Rotario W. Indies & S. America 1628-32 MSS.
(Tooley.)
