Fältmätningskåren bildades 1805 och slogs samman med Fortifikationen och bildade Ingenjörkåren år 1811. Topografiska kåren bildades 1831 av Ingenjörkårens fältmätningsbrigad som då utgick ur Ingenjörkåren. Den bestod av en Överste, en professor, 'renritare', vaktmästare och officerare, och hade till uppgift att uppföra fullständiga militärkartor över Sverige. Under åren 1836 till 1856 hade kåren ansvaret för de optiska telegrafnäten i landet. 1873 blev den en avdelning inom den nybildade Generalstaben.
Inledningsvis genomfördes en utbildning och förberedande kartarbeten. Arbetet ledde till den så kallade generalstabskartan som under lång tid var det enda rikstäckande kartverket med en enhetlig och detaljerad bild av landet.
1770-1823.
Vallance arrived in Philadelphia from Glasgow Scotland early in 1791. He quickly established his reputation as one of the best engravers in the city. During this period he developed a friendship with James Thackara. In 1791 Vallance married Elizabeth Trenchard, a niece of Thackara's wife Hannah. A partnership with Thackara was established. He engraved banknotes and documents. In addition he was one of the founders, in 1774, of the Association of Artists in America. His wife Elizabeth died in 1798 at the age of 28. Four years later he married again to Margaret Pratt.
Washington Map Society.
Ca: 1835.
Holländsk kartgravör. Inga övriga upplysningar hittade.
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
East Coast of Mexico. Tampico to Progreso. - Washington D.C. 1902.
Olaus Magnus text till den berömda kartan "Carta Marina".
Texten finns även på katalanska, spanska och engelska.
Bureus karta över norden
Kartor och atlaser
Bilder och planschverk
Teckenförklaringar
Porträtt på Gerard Mercator och Jodocus Hondius.
"Striking image showing Mercator and Hondius in their idealized workshop.
This famous portrait of two of the most important mapmakers during the Golden Age of Dutch cartography was engraved by Coletta Hondius, as a tribute to her late husband, shortly after his death. Gerard Mercator is shown with his successor, Jodocus Hondius, seated at a table surrounded by the implements of their trade. The fine portrait is set within an elaborate strapwork framework that includes a wall map of Europe.
Gerard Mercator is renowned as the cartographer who created a world map representing new projections of sailing courses of constant bearing as straight lines—an innovation which, to this day, enhances the simplicity and safety of navigation. In his own day, Mercator was the world's most famous geographer. He created a number of wall maps early in his career, as well as one of the earliest modern world Atlases in 1595. Although this was the first appearance of the word Atlas in a geographical context, Mercator used it as a neologism for a treatise on the creation, history and description of the universe, not simply a collection of maps. He chose the word as a commemoration of King Atlas of Mauretania, whom he considered to be the first great geographer.
Jodocus Hondius was a Dutch engraver and cartographer. He is best known for his early maps of the New World and Europe and for continuing publication of Gerard Mercator's World Atlas. He also helped establish Amsterdam as the center of cartography in Europe in the 17th century. In England, Hondius publicized the work of Francis Drake, who had made a circumnavigation of the world in the late 1570s. In 1604, he purchased the plates of Gerard Mercator's Atlas from Mercator's grandson and continued publication of the Atlas, adding his own maps over the next several decades. Hondius later published a pocket version Atlas Minor."
