SÖK KARTOGRAFER, GRAVÖRER M.FL.

BAGROW, LEO (Lev Semenovich[tj] Bagrov).

1881-1957.
Mångsidig och kunnig karthistoriker. Grundade bl.a. tidsskriften 'Imago Mundi' vars första nummer utkom i Berlin 1935. Författare till viktiga arbeten inom kartografi. Bodde i Ryssland till 1918, i Berlin 1918-1945 och i Stockholm 1945-1957.
Läs bl.a. Vingboons' maps in Sweden samt Maps of the Neva river and adjacent areas in swedish archives .
Biografi under utarbetande. Kommer att läggas ut här.

LONGMAN & CO.

Engelsk bokhandel- och förlagsfirma grundlagd i London 1724 av Thomas Longman (se denne). Bland förlagets författare under den första tiden finner vi David Hume - en senare innehavare av Thomas Norton Longman (1771-1842). Under hans tid möter vi Walter Scott, Thomas Moore m.fl. Förlagets produktion spände även över kartor, men de verkar ha varit i mer begränsad skala. Under årens lopp har firman övertagit flera andra förlag. Under firmanamnet Longmans, Green & Co. driver det idag en världsomspännande verksamhet med filialer över hela det brittiska imperiet.

Dict. nat. biogr.

SPARRMAN, ANDERS.

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.

Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.

'Malingsbo revir' och 'Karta öfver Kronoparken Kifsta uti Malingsbo s:n...' - 1913

Molyneux, Emery.

Biografiska uppgifter:Död i juni 1598.
Emery Molyneux was an English Elizabethan maker of globes, mathematical instruments and ordnance. His terrestrial and celestial globes, first published in 1592, were the first to be made in England and the first to be made by an Englishman.
Molyneux was known as a mathematician and maker of mathematical instruments such as compasses and hourglasses. He became acquainted with many prominent men of the day, including the writer Richard Hakluyt and the mathematicians Robert Hues and Edward Wright. He also knew the explorers Thomas Cavendish, Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh and John Davis. Davis probably introduced Molyneux to his own patron, the London merchant William Sanderson, who largely financed the construction of the globes. When completed, the globes were presented to Elizabeth I. Larger globes were acquired by royalty, noblemen and academic institutions, while smaller ones were purchased as practical navigation aids for sailors and students. The globes were the first to be made in such a way that they were unaffected by the humidity at sea, and they came into general use on ships.
Molyneux emigrated to Amsterdam with his wife in 1596 or 1597. He succeeded in interesting the States-General, the parliament of the United Provinces, in a cannon he had invented, but he died suddenly in June 1598, apparently in poverty. The globe-making industry in England died with him.
Only six of his globes are believed still to be in existence. Three are in England, of which one pair consisting of a terrestrial and a celestial globe is owned by Middle Temple and displayed in its library, while a terrestrial globe is at Petworth House in Petworth, West Sussex.

Molyneux accompanied Francis Drake on his 1577–1580 circumnavigation of the world; as Ubaldini reported, '[h]e himself has been in those seas and on those coasts in the service of the same Drake'. A legend in Latin on the terrestrial globe, explaining why Molyneux had left out the polar lands and corrected the distance across the Atlantic Ocean between The Lizard and Cape Race in Newfoundland, concluded:
'Quod equide[m] effeci tu[m] ex meis navigationibus primo, tum deinceps ex felici illa sub clariss. Fran. Drako ad Indos Occident, expeditione, in qua non modo optimas quasqu[e] alioru[m] descriptiones, sed quidquid mea quantulacu[m]que, vel scie[n]ta vel experientia ad integru[m] hoc qui[n]quen[n]io pr[a]estare potuit, ad hujus operis perfectione[m] co[m]paravi ...' [I have been able to do this both in the first place from my own voyages and secondly from that successful expedition to the West Indies under the most illustrious Francis Drake: in which expedition I have put together not only all the best delineations of others, but everything my own humble knowledge or experience has been able to furnish in the last five years to the perfecting of this work.]
Bland arbeten:
'The Globes Celestial and Terrestrial Set Forth in Plano'

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