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Théel, Anders Gustaf.

1804-1837.
Storskifteslantmätare, verksam i Dalarna.
Bland arbeten.
Charta öfver Aspeboda socken uti Stora Kopparbergs län [Kartografiskt material] / afmätt åren 1806, 1807 & 1808 af dertill förordnade landtm:re ; transporterad och copierad år 1831 af A.G. Théel

Charta öfver Thorsångs socken i Stora Kopparbergs län [Kartografiskt material] / ifrån en af landtm. C.P. Nyrén uppgord charta transporterad... af A.G. Théel

Jerna socken uti Stora Kopparbergs län och Wäster Dahlarne [Kartografiskt material] / ifrån storskifteskartan transporterad af A.G. Théel

Leksands socken uti Nedan Siljans fögderi af Stora Kopparbergs län [Kartografiskt material] / ifrån storskiftes mätningarne transporterad af A.G. T[hée]l

Äppelbo socken uti Stora Kopparbergs län och Wäster Dahlarne [Kartografiskt material] / ifrån storskiftes chartan transporterad... af A.G. Théel

BRETEZ, LOUIS.





Bland arbeten.
'Plan de Paris' också känd som 'Plan de Turgot'. 1734-1739.

HONDIUS, JODOCUS.

1563-1611.
Holländsk kartograf. Född i Wacken i Gent, död i Amsterdam. Växte upp i Gent där han fick undervisning i konst och olika vetenskaper. För sin vidare utbildnings skull reste han 1583 till London. Där specialiserade han sig på framställning av matematiska instrument, jordglober och kartor. Omkring år 1593 slog han sig ner i Amsterdam. 1604 köpte han kartplåtarna till Gerard Mercatos (se denne) atlas. 1605 gav han ut Mercators Ptolemaus-atlas på nytt och från 1606 ombesörjde han en rad nyutgåvor av Mercators atlas. Den stora popularitet detta medförde gav honom idén att kopiera den i mindre skala under titeln 'Atlas minor', som även den fick en stor utbredning. - Hondius utförde även enkla kopparstick, lösa planscher och bokillustrationer , men som kopparstickare är han av mindre betydelse. 1594 gav han ut en liten bok, 'Theatrum artis sribendi', med skriftprover av en rad berömda kalligrafer. Hans kartverk fördes vidare av sönerna Joducus d.y. och Hendrik Hondius, samt svärsonen Joannes Janssonius.

Bland arbeten.
Atlas minor.
Theatrum artis sribendi.


Nederl. biogr.


Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734


Vejde, Isatis tinctoria - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.

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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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