1686-1762. Född i Laon, död i Amsterdam.
Fransk författare. 18 år gammal kom han till Holland där han upprättade en privatskola som han 1724 övergav för att ägna sig åt författarskap. Bland hans talrika verk kan nämnas 'Histoire du cardinal Alberoni' (1719), 'Memoires du règne de Pierre le Grand' (1725-26), 'Histoire des guerres entre les maisons de France et d'Autriche' (1748), 'Nieuwe astronomische, geographische en historische atlas' (1742) och 'Nouvel atlas geographique & historique' (1742).
Bland arbeten.
'Histoire du cardinal Alberoni.
Memoires du règne de Pierre le Grand.
Histoire des guerres entre les maisons de France et d'Autriche.
Nieuwe astronomische, geographische en historische atlas.
Nouvel atlas geographique & historique.
Nouv. biogr. gen. - Phillips.
1596-1673. Född och död i Amsterdam.
Holländsk kartograf, bror till Cornelius Blaeu och son till Willem Janszoon Blaeu. Han var 1633-34 kartograf vid det holländska ostindiska kompaniet. Förutom att deltaga i familjens kartarbeten och föra dessa vidare efter faderns och broderns för tidiga död, gav han själv 1648 ut en stor världsatlas, 'Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula' i 20 blad, ett mycket omfattande utfört arbete, helt uppdaterat. Firmans kontor och lager i Gravenstraat eldhärjades svårt 1672 och skadorna blev förödande. En mängd kopparstick förlorades, däribland de norska som aldrig kunde tryckas igen. Jessen-Schardeböll nämner redan 1763 Blaeus kartor som sällsynta. Efter Joan Blaeus död gick affären över till sönerna Willem, Pieter och Joan.
Bland arbeten.
Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula.
Jessen. - Nederl. biogr., X. - Tooley.
1828-1900.
Kartograf. 1863-1896 anställd vid ekonomiska kartverket, en av sin tids främsta svenska kartografer. Bland hans många utgivna kartor, av vilka några utgått i flera upplagor, märkas, jämte sockenkartor, 'Ankologisk och fysisk karta öfver Sverige' med geografi (1857), 'Karta öfver Carlstads län', (1862), 'Karta öfver Mälaren och dess omgifningar' (1868), 'Ny och fullständig jernvägs-, post-, telegraf- och reskarta öfver Sverige' (samma år), 'Karta öfver Stockholm' (1870), 'Kultur- och reskarta öfver Sverige' (1876) och 'Karta öfver Wester Norrlands län' (1889).
Bland arbeten.
Ankologisk och fysisk karta öfver Sverige.
Karta öfver Carlstads län.
Karta öfver Mälaren och dess omgifningar.
Ny och fullständig jernvägs-, post-, telegraf- och reskarta öfver Sverige.
Karta öfver Stockholm.
Kultur- och reskarta öfver Sverige.
Karta öfver Wester Norrlands län.
Sign. ABC Sv. Uppsl.b. 2:a uppl. Bd 6 1948.
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
Heraldischer Atlas, Tavla 1 - H. G. Ströhl 1899.
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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