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Cellarius, Andreas.

(c. 1596, Neuhausen, – 1665, Hoorn)
Cellarius was a Dutch-German cartographer, best known for his Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1660, a major star atlas, published by Johannes Janssonius in Amsterdam.
He was born in Neuhausen (now a part of Worms), and was educated in Heidelberg. The Protestant Cellarius may have left Heidelberg at the onset of the Thirty Years' War in 1618 or in 1622 when the city came in Catholic hands. His activities are unclear at this time but based on his later works it is conjectured he spent time in Poland and may have even worked as a military engineer there. In 1625 he married Catharina Elt(e)mans in Amsterdam, where he worked as school master of a Latin School. After a brief stay in The Hague, the family moved to Hoorn. From 1637 until his death he was rector of the Latin School in Hoorn, where Pieter Anthoniszoon Overtwater was conrector.
He published on fortification and on Poland.
The minor planet 12618 Cellarius is named in his honour.

Andreas Cellarius

The Dutch-German mathematician and cosmogr...
Bland arbeten.
Harmonia macrocosmica sea atlas universalis et novus. Amsterdam: G. Valck and P. schenk, 1708.
Folio (530 x 320mm), allegorical title engraved by F. H. van Hoven, printed in red and black with woodcut vignette, letterpress title with contents and 29 double-page engraved cosmographical charts finely coloured by hand, without text.
One of the most fascinating achievement from the golden age of Dutch cartography. The Harmonia macrocosmica is the only atlas of the period dealing with astronomy.
Unlike the late celestial atlases, the Cellarius charts demonstrated various ancient and contemporary cosmological ideas, rather than just the names and positions of the stars. The purpose of the book was to assess different attempts to discover the underlying harmony of the universe. The charts represent the highest levels of seventeenth-century astronomical thought, with the diagram showing aspects of the three great theories on the nature of the universe; the Ptolemaic, the Copernican and the Brahean.

VEEN, ADRIEN.

1572-ca. 1632.
Holländsk kartograf. Gjorde sig främst berömd för konstruktionen av en ny typ av sjökort. Han hävdade att den vanliga plana formen gav en felaktig framställning av kartbilden och försökte istället 'gebulte kaarten' så att den följde jordens buktning. De första kartorna av denna typ kom ut under åren 1595-98. De blev mycket omstridda och var knappast länge i bruk. Han samarbetade senare med Jodocus Hondius d.y. (se denne). År 1613 gav de förutom en Nordenkarta, även ut en himmelsglob.

Nederl. biogr., II. - Orbis., s. XV.

NEYMAN (Nyman, Nyeman, Newman), JOHAN (Hans).

Född 15.., död 16…
Kopparstickare. Verksam i Sverige o. 1616-23. Elev till Valentin Trautman. Medföljde troligen denne till Sverige o. 1616. Hade 1620 av K. Maj:t fått »något arbete under handen», för vilket han 9/2 i ersättning uppbar 60 dlr smt (Kammarkoll. Reg.). S. å. levererades till kopparstickaren Hans Nyman 5 alnar svart kläde och 6 alnar foderboj (Klädkamm. räk.). Kopparstickaren Hans Etzer erhöll i lön för tiden 4/7-27/9 1621 59 ¾ dlr smt (Räntek. boken). S. å 16/12 utbetalades till kopparstickaren Johan Newman 20 dlr smt »till att köpa materia till H. K. M. wapn» (Räntek. boken). Guldsmeden Jochim von der Fecht hade 1622 14/11 å kopparstickaren Hans Jurgens vägnar en fordran att bevaka hos kronan för utfört arbete (Räntek. boken). N., som vid ett tillfälle kallas »förlupen kopparstickare», synes 1623 ha avvikit ur landet. — De båda ovan nämnda Hans Etzer och Hans Jurgen äro med stor sannolikhet identiska med Johan Neyman.

Bland arbeten.
Bibeln, Sthlm 1618: Geographisk afritning huru thet förlofvade landet hafver waridt belägit, karta över Palestina, efter J. Lenéus och V. Trautman.

Hultmark, 1944.

Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.

Snarreva, Cuscuta europæa - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.

Verden, Karl van.

Carl Van Verden (fl. c. 1718 - 1730) was a Dutch seaman in the employ of the Russian Navy during the early 18th century. Van Verden is best known for his important 1719 - 1721 mapping of the Caspian Sea, which was the most sophisticated and accurate that had been issued to date. A significant cartographic achievement, Van Verden's work on the Caspian led directly to Peter the Great's 1722 invasion of Baku and Derbent and Russian hegemony in the region. Despite his achievements in the Caspian, Van Verden was later passed up by the Tzar in favor of Vitus Behring for the commission to discover a Northeast Passage through the Russian Arctic.

Around 1718 the Russian Tzar, Peter the Great, sponsored a number of cartographic expeditions to the farthest reaches of his vast empire. Most of these were headed up by Dutch navigators, the most experienced and mercenary of the era. Carl Van Verden, a Dutch seaman, was commissioned as a Russian naval officer and assigned the task of mapping the Caspian Sea. Though well known since antiquity the world’s largest lake was largely ignored by surveyors until Van Verden’s work in the early 18th century. Van Verden’s work had significant political ramifications. Peter the Great, Russia’s most expansionist Tzar, was determined to make the Caspian a “Russian Lake” and invaded the region in 1722 seizing Derbent and Baku.

Copies of Van Verden’s work eventually made their way to Paris via Nicholas de L’Isle, brother to the more famous cartographer G. de L’Isle. Geographers in Paris quick recognized the importance of the work and the era most significant cartographers and map publishers, including Homann, De L’Isle, Moll, and Covens and Mortier, were quick to copy and publish their own variants of the Van Verden chart. This example is of the more obscure such charts. Published in Paris around 1730, this map offers a number of important elements. All text is in both French and transliterated Russian, so “Bulsebek” becomes “Usbech” and “La Mer Caspie” becomes “More Gualenskoi”, etc. Many of the mountains along the lake’s western and southern shores are noted and curiously rendered with an unusual lake-centric orientation. Also noted are the Caspian’s various reefs, shoals, sandbars, and other undersea dangers.
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Carte Marine de la Mer Caspiene.

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