KARTOGRAFI OCH BILDLORE

HAAN, LAURENS FEYKES.

Ca. 1700.
Holländsk skeppare och kartritare. Inga upplysningar hittade.

CROME

Kartograf som 1875 tog fram en tematisk karta där han jämförde befolkningen i Europa.

MUNCH, PETER ANDREAS.

1810-63. Född i Christiania (Oslo), död i Rom.
Norsk vetenskapsman. Han började studera 1828 och tog en juridisk ämbetsexamen 1934, blev 1837 lektor i historia, professor 1841. Var medlem av en rad lärda sällskap båda i sitt hemland och utomlands. Vid sidan om sin enorma och välkända insats som historiker, språkforskare och utgivare av norska källskrifter, sysslade han även med geografiska studier. 1849 gav han ut 'Historisk-geographisk Beskrivelse over Kongeriget Norge (Noregsveldi) i Middelalderen', men redan tidigare hade han ritat geologiska kartor för professor Keilhaus stora verk 'Gaea Norvegica', och 1854 gav han ut sin första Norgekarta, kompletterad med en 'Fortegnelse over de mest befarede Landeveie og Reiserouter.. i Norge' (1846). Han ritade även kartor för barn- och skolböcker. Munchs karta över Norge är baserad på en ingående kämnnedom av landet, och utmärker sig för sin noggrannhet och sitt fina utförande. Kartan fick stort erkännande och utkom i många upplagor. Han blev belönad med medalj vid världsutställningen i Paris 1878.
Bland arbeten.
Historisk-geographisk Beskrivelse over Kongeriget Norge (Noregsveldi) i Middelalderen.
Gaea Norvegica.
Fortegnelse over de mest befarede Landeveie og Reiserouter.. i Norge.

E. Ellefsen: P.A. Munch som geograf. (Se nr. 448) - Halvorsen.

Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936

Boije af Gennes - 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.