d'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon
Born in Paris July 11, 1697 – died January 28, 1782.
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (born in Paris July 11, 1697 – January 28, 1782), was both a geographer and cartographer who greatly improved the standards of map-making. His maps of ancient geography, characterized by careful, accurate work and based largely on original research, are especially valuable. He left unknown areas of continents blank and noted doubtful information as such; compared to the lavish maps of his predecessors, his maps looked empty. Work D'Anville's map of China and Central Asia (1734) for du Halde's "Description geographique de la Chine", compiled based on the first systematic geographic survey of the entire Chinese Empire by a team of French Jesuits (ca. 1700) His passion for geographical research displayed itself from early years: at age of twelve he was already amusing himself by drawing maps for Latin authors. Later, his friendship with the antiquarian, Abbé Longuerue, greatly aided his studies. His first serious map, that of Ancient Greece, was published when he was fifteen....
Bland arbeten.
Pere J. B. du Halde with maps by d'Anville, "Description geographique de la Chine", 1735. "Nouvel Atlas de la Chine", 1737. "Atlas Generale", circa 1740. "Geographie Ancienne et Abregee", 1769.
1648-1709?.
Holländsk kartförläggare. Född och död i Amsterdam där han drev en omfattande konst- och kartaffär. 1699 sökte han privilegium för utgivningen av en ny "Atlas Minor" och 1706 gav han samtidigt ut både en "Atlas Minor" som innehöll 521 av den tidens bästa landskartor, och två mindre atlaser med uppskattningsvis 25 kartor. Från 1708 finns bevarat en förteckning över hans samling av kopparstick, som ger ett bra bild av hans verksamhet. Förutom kartorna finner vi här en rad med prospekt och skeppskonstruktioner, porträtt och bilder med historiska och bibliska motiv. Flera av tidens främsta konstnärer finns representerade, däribland Rembrandt med 6 målningar.
Bland arbeten.
Atlas Minor.
Kleerkooper.
1697-1774. Född i Montauban, Frankrike, död i London.
Engelsk kartograf. Han kom till England som "agent of the States-General" och blev fransklärare åt kung George II:s barn. Förutom diverse filologiska verk utgav han 1754-55 "Nouvelle Introduction à la Géographie Moderne" i 3 band, samt "Atlas Méthodique" med 53 kartor 1754.
Bland arbeten.
Nouvelle Introduction à la Géographie Moderne. Atlas Méthodique.
Dict. nat. biogr.
Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
'Brännkyrka socken, uppmätt år 1906. Ritad af Elsa Lagergren... - 1913.
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."
