KARTOGRAFI OCH BILDLORE

BLOM, BERNT ANKER.

1796-1858.
Norsk officer 1813, 1823 förstelöjtnant vid 'Trondheims infanteribrigad' och 1825 kapten. År 1853 överstelöjtnant vid 'Kristiansands brigad'.

Ovenstad.

MOITHEY, MAURILLE-ANTOINE.

1752-ca. 1810. Född och död i Paris.
Fransk geograf. Under åren före den franska revolutionen var han matematiklärare för prinsen av Contis pager. Han gav ut flera atlaser och geografiska verk, varav kan nämnas 'Recherches historiques sur Orléans' (1744). 'Dictionnaire Hydrographique de la France' (1787) och 'Atlas national portatif de la France suivant la nouvelle Division en 83 Départements' (1792). Han lät också ge ut särskilt komplicerade verk i geografiska och historiska ämnen.
Bland arbeten.
Recherches historiques sur Orléans.
Dictionnaire Hydrographique de la France.
Atlas national portatif de la France suivant la nouvelle Division en 83 Départements.

Nouv. biogr. gen.

ARIAS, MONTANUS BENEDICTUS.

1527-98. Född i Fregenal de la Sierra, död i Sevilla.
Spansk teolog. Arias studerade teologi och klassiska språk i Alcala, där han doktorerade i teologi. Han reste mycket i Europa och deltog bl.a. i kyrkomötet i Trient. Från 1568 bodde han i Antwerpen där han på kung Filip II:s befallning förestod utgivningen av den kungliga polyglottbibeln i 8 band (tryckt av Christopher Plantin 1569-72). Bandet med kommentarer, 'Apparatus Biblicus', innehåller flera kartor som belyser bibelhistorien. Arias gav även ut en rad andra teologiska skrifter, de flesta bibelkommentarer.
Bland arbeten.
Apparatus Biblicus.

Th. und K.

Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.

Bureus karta över Norden - 1626.

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."

Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.