KARTOGRAFI OCH BILDLORE

Bertius, Petrus. [Bert].

1565-1629.
Petrus Bertius grew up in Beveren in Flanders and as a young man travelled widely in Europe. In company with so many of his compatriots he moved to Amsterdam as a refugee from religious persecution and after completing his studies there he was appointed a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his editions of Ptolemy's Geographia (based on Mercator's edition of 1578) and for the miniature atlases detailed below. In 1618 he moved to Paris and became Official Cosmographer to Louis XIII. He was related by marriage to Jodocus Hondius and Pieter van den Keere.

MORTIER, CORNELIUS.

Son till MORTIER, PIETER. 1721 ingick han kompanjonskap med Johannes Covens (se denne), och förde sin fars verksamhet vidare under firmanamnet Cóvens et Mortier. Deras kartproduktion, nämnt under Cóvens, var förvisso den viktigaste delen av verksamheten, men bokproduktionen verkar också ha varit ganska omfattande. Under viss tid samarbetade de med brodern Pierre Mortier (död 1754) som hade sin egen verksamhet, bl.a. om utgivningen av ett stort illustrerat bibelverk.

Kleerkooper.

NORDENCREUTZ, FREDRIK JAKOB.

Född 1723, död 1793.
Öfverste och chef för finska fortifikationsbrigaden. Son till Filip Nordencreutz.

Bland arbeten.
Manuskriptkarta - 'Special hydrographisk carta öfwer Öster-Giötlands skiärgård ifrån Näfweqwarn till Walmarswijk [Kartografiskt material] : med dess öar, holmar ock siöar, samt skiär, hamnar ock redder, med segellederne för stora ock små fartyg / observerat, plicktat ock peijlat uti Augusti månad 1734 af Nils Strömcrona. Renowerad ock efter andre cartor tillökt af F.I. Nordencreutz'

Manuskriptkarta, 1749 - 'Carta no. 1 öfwer södre delen af Sawolax [Kartografiskt material] : utwisandes de större ock mindre wägar ifrån den nu projecterade gräntzen in åt Sawolax ock Tawastehus läner, samt huru de med siöar ock watten befinnas coupperade / sammandragen af Fred. Iac. Nordencreutz'

Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.

Cronman - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1900.

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.