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NORDENCREUTZ, JAKOB MAGNUS.

Född 1763, död 1834.
Öfverstelöjtnant och fortifikationsbefälhafvare i Landskrona, voro framstående fortifikationsofficerare. Den förre var lärare i fortifikationsvetenskapen för prinsarna Gustaf, Karl och Fredrik Adolf och ledde 1776 utarbetandet af en militärkarta öfver Finland. Den senare var 1793-96 lärare i fortifikation för konung Gustaf IV Adolf och uppförde Uppsala universitets orangeribyggnad. Son till Fredrik Jakob Nordencreutz.

KLINT, ERIK af.

1732-1812.
Före adlandet Klint, sjöofficer, ämbetsman, f. 6 okt. 1732 på Kölby, Ljungby skn, Kalmar län, d. 10 nov. 1812 på Visborgs kungsgård på Gotland. Föräldrar: häradshövdingen och lagmannen Esaias K. och Brita Maria Bubb. - K. blev 1750 kofferdibåtsman och 1755 löjtnant vid amiralitetet samt 1757 militärguvernör och informationsofficer vid den i Karlskrona året förut inrättade kadettskolan, som han kom att ägna många år av sitt bästa arbete. K. företog 1764-66 en Ostindienresa på skeppet Finland samt blev 1767 befordrad till kaptenlöjtnant och 1776 till major vid örlogsflottan. Vid sidan av sin lärartjänst provseglade K. de av Chapman nykonstruerade örlogsfartygen, samt ritade och korrigerade under konteramiral Johan Nordenanckars ledning bl.a. sjökort över Östersjön och Finska viken. Vid utbrottet av Gustav III:s ryska krig 1788 erhöll K. befälet på flaggskeppet Gustaf III med storamiralen hertig Karl ombord, en förtroendepost han behöll under hela kriget. Han deltog med utmärkelse i sjöslagen vid Hogland 1788, e...


Svenska män och kvinnor, band IV. Bonniers 1948. Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.

TINDAL, NICHOLAS.

1685-1774.
English translator, historian and publisher. Published various map books, among them the fifteen volumes of Tindal's Continuation of Mr Rapin 's History of England


Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.


Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734


Wennerstedt - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1900.

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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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