1774-1836.
Appointed engineer at the Survey Office in 1801, but was not eligible for salary until a permanent position became vacant. In 1809 was commissioned lieutenant at the marine measurement corps and made supervisor at the Sea Charts Office. Known for his skill and great modesty.
Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.
Italiensk kartograf omkring år 1800. Han gav ut 'Atlante geografico universale' i tre band (1780-1802), och 'Nuovo atlante univsersale', även den i tre band (1792-1801).
Bland arbeten.
Atlante geografico universale.
Nuovo atlante univsersale.
Phillips.
Född 7 september 1661 i Örs socken Dalsland, död 7 september 1709 i Pommern.
Gunno Dahlstierna, var en svensk lantmätare och skald, adlad 1702 (före adlandet hette han Eurelius). Han var son till kontraktsprosten Andreas Eurenius och Margareta Bluthera.
Dahlstierna blev student i Uppsala 1677 och inspirerades av Olof Rudbeck att från 1681 engagera såsom lantmätare i Livland, med särskilt uppdrag att kartlägga detta landskaps område och gränser, och begav sig 1685 till Tyskland, där han studerade vid flera universitet, bland annat i Leipzig, där han (1687) försvarade en avhandling, De electro, på sådant sätt, att en professur erbjöds honom. Han återvände det oaktat till Sverige, där han 1690 utnämndes till lantmäteriinspektör. Från 1691 var hans verksamhet förlagd till Pommern, även sedan han 1699 utnämnts till direktör för svenska lantmäteriet. Genom hans försorg fick Pommern ordentliga och tydliga kartor.
Som skald ägnade han sig åt patriotisk diktning, inspirerad från tyska och italienska förebilder. Han skildrar gärna sin hembygd i Dalsland och då med idylliska förtecken i b...
Bland arbeten.
Giöta kiämpa-wisa om kåningen och härr Pädar.
Swea lands frids-frögd i Saxen.
Kart & Bildteknik 2003:3, artikel "Från Nyen till Hiddensee. Svensk kartläggning under 1600-talet". Av Ulla Ehrensvärd. VÖBAM. Kjell Åberg.
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
Dahlberg - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1900.
Biografiska uppgifter:Kâtip Çelebi, Mustafa bin Abdullah, Haji Khalifa or Kalfa, (1609, Istanbul – 1657 Istanbul)
Kâtip Celebi was an Ottoman scholar. A historian and geographer, he is regarded as one of the most productive authors of non-religious scientific literature in the 17th century Ottoman Empire. Among his best-known works is the Kashf al-?un?n ‘an as?m? al-kutub wa-al-fun?n, ('The Removal of Doubt from the Names of Books and the Arts'), a bibliographic encyclopaedia, written in Arabic, which lists more than 14,500 books in alphabetic order.
Life and works
The son of a soldier, he himself was a soldier for ten years until a heritage made him turn to a more contemplative life. As the accountant of the commissariat department of the Ottoman Army in Anatolia, he accompanied the Ottoman army in the campaign against Baghdad in 1625, was present at the siege of Erzurum, and returned to Istanbul in 1628. In the following year he was again in Baghdad and Hamadan, and in 1633-34 at Aleppo, whence he made the pilgrimage to Mecca (hence his title Hajji). The following year he was in Erivan and then returned to Constantinople. Here he obtained a post in the head office of the commissariat department, which afforded him time for study. He seems to have attended the lectures of great teachers up to the time of his death, and made a practice of visiting bookshops and noting the titles and contents of all books he found there.
One of his shorter and more accessible works is M?z?n al-?aqq f? ikhtiy?r al-a?aqq ('The balance of truth in the choice of the truest'), a collection of short essays on topics in Islamic law, ethics, and theology, in which he takes a relatively liberal and tolerant view—often critical of narrow-minded Islamic religious authorities. This book serves as a source on Ottoman social developments in the 16th and 17th centuries, such as the introduction of coffee and tobacco. While he did not concur with the outlawing of coffee and tobacco, he found tobacco smoke personally distasteful, writing of the 'noxious effects of the corruption of the aerial essence.' An English translation by G. L. Lewis of the M?z?n al-?aqq has been published with annotations under the title The Balance of Truth.
Katip Çelebi died suddenly and peacefully in October 1657, while drinking a cup of coffee.
Bland arbeten:
Cihannüma (The mirror of the world) Constantinople, Ibrahim Müteferrika, 1732. First edition.
This is the second work by Kâtip Celebi published in 1729. The author was a well known writer on history and geography and a bibliophile and in this work intended to publish a universal system of geography. In fact only part of the work (including the description of Asia Minor) was completed by Kâtip who used European and Arabic and Persian sources, and the whole was supplemented and edited by Ibrahim, who dedicated it to the grand vizir of Sultan Mahmud II, Ali Pasha.
The picture is showing the map of the Indian Ocean and the China Sea that was engraved in 1728 by the Hungarian-born Ottoman cartographer and publisher Ibrahim Müteferrika; it is one of a series that illustrated Katip Çelebi’s Cihannuma (Universal Geography), the first printed book of maps and drawings to appear in the Islamic world.
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