1779-1868.
Son of engraver Fredric Akrel. Worked on the fortification of the Trollhätte Canal and defence posts in the Stockholm archipelago. Served as major and senior aide-de-camp for King Karl Johan in the First Napoleonic War and was seriously wounded in the chest in the storming of Leipzig. Was made a noble in 1819. Promoted to lieutenant general and appointed head of the Telegraph administration in 1854. A hobby engraver, producing among others the maps for Sweden 's Marine Atlas (Sveriges SjöatIas).
Bland arbeten.
Sveriges SjöatIas.
Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.
Ca. 1632-1712. Född i Franche Comte, död i Paris.
Fransk kartograf. Han var från början bildhuggare, men efter att ha gift sig med dottern till en känd kartograf, Nicolas Berey, gick han över till sin svärfars yrke, och ägnade sig åt geografiska studier. Han kom i kontakt med familjen Sanson (se dessa) och övertog till slut merparten av deras kartor. Flera av dessa lät han utföra i större skala. Hans kartor utmärker sig som sällsynt vackra. Hans första kartverk, 'Atlas Nouveau', utkom 1681 med 45 kartor. Det följdes av en rad utgåvor, från 1695 med titeln ändrad till 'Atlas Francois'. 1693 utgav han även ett sjökartverk. 'Le Neptune Francais ou Atlas Nouveau des Cartes Marines'. Efter Jaillots död fortsatte vissa medlemmar av hans familj verksamheten fram till 1780.
Jaillot's kartor utmärker sig för storlek och skönhet. Vad som är typiskt för Jaillot är att han ökade kartorna på bredden vilket var en lyckad idé parad med vackra koloreringar, ofta som gränskoloreringar, vilket även gör hans kartor tydliga och lättlästa.
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Atlas Nouveau.
Atlas Francois.
'Le Neptune Francais ou Atlas Nouveau des Cartes Marines.
Nouv. biogr. gen. - Tooley. RdeT.
Född 1707 19/12 i Bettna sn (Söd.), död 1747 12/1 i Stockholm (Jakob).
Brukspredikant och komminister. Kopparstickare. Son av kyrkoherden Anders G. Och Catharina Bergander. Elev av Johan van den Aveelen o. 1724. Student vid Uppsala universitet 1725, brukspredikant vid Vällinge i Salems sn (Sthlm) 1737, komminister i Jakobs och Johannes församlingar i Stockholm 1740. Kusinen C. E. Bergquist har graverat ett porträtt av sin lärare Geringius med följande omskrift:
»Den oss i koppar har så mänga bilder visat
Blir här i koppar sjelf af eftervärlden prisat
Som prest och konstnär har han tjent sitt fosterland
Var nitisk i sitt kall och konstrik i sin hand.»
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O. CELSIUS d. ä., De insula Melita, diss., resp. A. Geringius, Uppsala 1725: karta över Malta.
Antependium i Riddarholmskyrkan, 1726, kpst., avsett för J. Possieths tillämnade beskrivning över Riddarholmskyrkan.
P. TILLAEUS, Karta över Stockholm, efter P. Wallrave, 1733, utförd i samarbete med C. E. Bergquist, jämte porträtt av Fredrik I, efter M. Mijtens, kpst.
Karta över Mälaren, 1739.
Karta över Södermanland, 1743.
M. A. SAHLSTEDT, Stora Tuna i Dahlom och Bergom minnesdöme, Sthlm 1743: karta över Stora Tuna.
Hultmark, 1944.
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
Öregrunds skärgård. Öregrund - Simpnäsklubb. - Stockholm 1936.
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.
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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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