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200 km 3A:7 100 mi 3. Jacob Aertsz. Colom Arnold Colom In the 1630s, an opening was created in the market for 3A: Charts of Norway from J.A. Colom’s mariners’ guides as both Willem Blaeu and Johannes Jans- De Vyerighe Colom (full titles listed at end of chapter) sonius began to focus their efforts on the production of ter- restrial world atlases. As they competed fiercely by issuing 3A:1 ever larger and more lavish multivolume sets, Jacob Aertsz. Pascaarte vant|SCHAGERRACK.|Ende Custe van Colom (1600–1673) published De Vyerighe Colom (The Fiery Noorwegen tot|Akersondt Column), a folio-format sea atlas with 43 charts in 1632. For 3A:2 this work, Colom constructed his own set of charts with a Noordse Custen|Tusschen Akersondt|en Schaersondt pattern of coverage of the coast of Norway different from 3A:3 3A:6 that presented by Blaeu (see schema above; compare the De Custe van Noorwegen|Tusschen Schaersondt en| schematics for Blaeu’s charts at the beginning of chapter 2; Schuÿtenes see also the graph comparing Norway coastal coverage of sets 3A:4 of sea charts on p. 285.). top half of sheet: Around 1645, responding to competitive and market- De Custe|van NOORWEGEN,|van Bergen tot Stemmeshest ing forces, Colom issued an oblong version of his atlas, “The lower half of sheet: Het|Liet van|Bergen. Upright Fyrie Colomne.” This was followed in 1651 with a large folio version: De Groote Lichtende ofte Vyerighe Colom 3A:5 Het|Liet van|Dronten (The Great Light or the Fiery Column). For these, Colom gen- erally re-used his existing charts, but rearranged their order 3A:6 3A:5 within the atlas and renumbered them accordingly.1 lower, main, map: Colom, originally from Dordrecht, had worked in De Custen Van|Noorwegenen Finmar:|ken, tusschen Jacob Aertsz. Colom Dronten|en de Noort Caap Amsterdam since 1622 as a bookseller, printer, and chart- maker. When the opportunity arose to publish his own atlas, 3A:7 3A:4 upper 3A:1 . van’t|SCHAGERRACK . tot| he explicitly threw down the gauntlet to Blaeu in the title of upper map: Akersondt his work: “The defects and errors of the previous Light or De Custen van,|Noorwegen En Laplandt,|Tusschen Mirror of the Sea [are] exposed and corrected.”2 Although Noordkÿn en Kilduÿn. 3A:2 . Tusschen Akersondt|en Schaersondt lower map: Blaeu, and subsequently Janssonius, reacted, they did so pri- De Custen van|Laplandt Tusschen|Kilduÿn en Swetenoes 3A:4 lower ---> 3A:3 . Tusschen Schaersondt en|Schuÿtenes marily by recycling older material. 3A:8 3A:2 Colom successfully defended, maintained, and extended 3A:4 . van Bergen tot Stemmeshest untitled map of Norway oriented to the northeast Het|Liet van|Bergen his marketplace leadership during the following decades, with two dozen editions of De Vyerighe Colom appearing in 3A:5 Het|Liet van|Dronten Dutch, French, and English; the oblong format Upright Fyrie Almost all of the atlases published by J.A. Colom are 3A:3 Colomne in English and Dutch; and the large folio Groote Lich- scarce, with many known in only a handful of copies.3 3A:6 . tusschen Dronten|en de Noort Caap tende ofte Vyerighe Colom. In addition to these pilot guides, The discussion of the Norway and Norway-related charts 3A:7 . Tusschen Noordkÿn en Kilduÿn. Colom published Atlas of Werelts-Water-Deel in 1663. This distinguishes several states and variants, but it should be . van|Laplandt Tusschen|Kilduÿn en sea atlas consists mostly of charts from the Vyerighe Colom presumed that others exist. Most of the maps illustrated Swetenoes augmented with ten new maps depicting the coasts of Asia, in this chapter are from a 1648 Dutch De Vyerighe Colom 3A:1 Africa, and America. (fig. 3A.p1), specifically the first part of the first book and the first part of the second book (figs.3 A.p2 and 3A.p3); a few are from a 1662 printing. Almost all of them have 3A.1a. J.A. Colom, Pascaarte vant Schagerrack ende Custe van Noorwegen tot Akersondt, 1662. titles in French and Dutch, whereas the first edition of 1632 Colom, differs from the charts of either Waghenaer or Blaeu 3A.p1. J.A. Colom, De Vyerighe Colom, title page, 1648. had titles only in Dutch. In addition to this cartographically (see the schematic diagrams at the beginnings of chapters 1 immaterial distinction, the evolution of the atlas resulted in and 2 and the comparison graph of coastal coverage, pages 3A.p2. J.A. Colom, De Vyerighe Colom, title page for first part of first book, 1648. instances where two charts printed on a single sheet were 6, 28, and 285, respectively). either separated and printed on two sheets or combined The next two charts following the coastline, 3A:2 and 3A.p3. J.A. Colom, De Vyerighe Colom, title page for first part into a single chart on one sheet, as discussed following. 3A:3, are numbered “8” and “VIII,” respectively (figs. 3A.2a of second book, 1648. Beginning at its most southeastern extent, the first and 3A.3a). The former has only a Dutch title, whereas the chart depicting part of Norway, 3A:1, is on sheet “VII,” latter also has one in French. The apparent anomaly in in which “Akersondt” almost grazes the left border (fig. sequencing and the lack of a French title on one chart is a 3A.1a). The French title at the upper right in addition to the consequence of their printing history. In the 1632 edition, Dutch one at the upper left indicates that this is the second both were on the same sheet, which carried the number state of the chart. Its geographical range, determined by “8” at the lower left. (The two charts utilized the sheet area 3A.2a. J.A. Colom, Noordse Custen tusschen Akersondt en Schaersondt, 1648. 3A.3a. J.A. Colom, De Custe van Noorwegen tusschen Schaersondt en Schuÿtenes, 1648. more efficiently by eliminating most of the empty sea and although charts 3A:2 and 3A:3 share a common predeces- The three states of sheet 10, the Liet of Dronten, 3A:5, numbered “14” and “15,” were single page and faced each focusing on the actual coasts.) By around 1640, Colom had sor, there are two states of the former, but there may be reflect the evolution of Colom’s atlas. The first state had a other. Their respective titles were Pascaerte vande Cust decided to separate and enlarge the charts. A 1639/1640 De only a single state of the latter. title only in Dutch; the second state added the French (fig. van Finmareken, van Dronten tot de Noort Caap, als mede ’t Vyerighe Colom at the Library of Congress4 would seem to Map 3A:4, sheet “9” around Bergen, has two charts: 3A.5a). When Colom revised the ordering of the charts, nieugevonden Lant Spits berge¯ and Pascaart van de Cust van be an intermediate edition as it contains both the double- the lower one shows the southern approach to Bergen, with those pertaining to Norway were renumbered into the 40s Laplandt en Russen tusschen de Noordcaap en Nova Zembla.6 chart sheet and the single-sheet Akersondt chart. However, the continuation northward in the upper one (fig.3 A.4a). and above, with the result that the corresponding new The titles and the stretches of coast depicted were essen- compared with figure 3A.2a, in the Library of Congress The definition of “liet” in the title is channel or approach position for former chart 10 was “47,” and this number was tially the same as the next two double-page charts, “16” copy the lower half of the island to the right of “Akersondt” (English “lead” or “leads”; Norwegian “lei” or “led”).5 added at the lower right corner while retaining “10” at the and “17” (see full titles listed at the end of the chapter). has not yet been drawn and the “35” to the north-north- Again, the presence of the French title denotes the second lower left (fig. 3A.5b) (see note 1). Probably because there was so much duplication, in the west about halfway to “De Susters” is not present. Thus, state of the chart. Colom’s imprint appears in both titles. In the 1632 De Vyerighe Colom, the next two charts, 1640s, Colom combined charts 14 and 15 into an untitled, 3A.5a. J.A. Colom, Het Liet van Dronten (sheet numbered “10”), 1648. 3A.5b. J.A. Colom, Het Liet van Dronten (sheet “10” and “47”), 1662. 3A.4a. J.A. Colom, De Custe van Noorwegen, van Bergen tot Stemmeshest and Het Liet van Bergen, 1648. 3A.6a. J.A. Colom, De Custen van Noorwegenen Finmarken, tusschen Dronten en de Noort Caap, 1648. 3A.7a. J.A. Colom, De Custen van, Noorwegen en Laplandt, tusschen Noordkÿn en Kilduijn and . Laplandt tusschen Kilduÿn en Swetenoes, 1648. unnumbered chart of Norway oriented to the northeast first edition, depict at a much larger scale most of the cov- (upper chart, title only in Dutch), and then continuing to 3A:10 with a latitude scale running diagonally across the sheet erage on the original 14/15 sheet (or of its unnumbered Swetenoes (lower chart, Dutch and French titles). There are PASCAERTE|VANDE|NOORD-ZEE|NIEULIX and reaching to Spitsbergen, map 3A:8 (fig. 3A.8a).7 (Con- replacement, map 3A:8) and resume the numerical and also three inset maps, two at the upper left and one at the WTGEGEVEN trast this treatment with that of the original sheet 8 consist- geographic progression up the coast.
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    The Calvinist Copernicans History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands, volume I The series History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands presents studies on a variety of subjects in the history of science, scholarship and academic institu­ tions in the Netherlands. Titles in this series 1. Rienk Vermij, The Calvinist Copernicans. The reception of the new astronomy in the Dutch Republic, IJ7J-IJJo. 2002, ISBN 90-6984-340-4 2. Gerhard Wiesenfeldt, Leerer Raum in Minervas Haus. Experimentelle Natur­ lehre an der Universitdt Leiden, 167J- IJIJ. 2002, ISBN 90-6984-339-0 3. Rina Knoeff, Herman Boerhaave (I668- IJ}8). Calvinist chemist and pf?ysician. 2002, ISBN 90-6984-342-0 4. Johanna Levelt Sengers, How fluids unmix. Discoveries ~ the School of Van der Waals and Kamerlingh Onnes. 2002, ISBN 90-6984-357-9 Editorial Board K. van Berkel, University of Groningen W.Th.M. Frijhoff, Free University of Amsterdam A. van Helden, Utrecht University W.E. Krul, University of Groningen A. de Swaan, Amsterdam School of Sociological Research R.P.W. Visser, Utrecht University The Calvinist Copernicans The reception of the new astronomy in the Dutch Republic, 1575-1750 Rienk Vermij Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam 2002 © 2002 Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy­ ing, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the pub­ lisher. Edita KNAW, P.O. Box 19121, IOOO GC Amsterdam, the Netherlands edita@ bureau.knaw.nl, www.knaw.nl/edita The paper in this publication meets the requirements of @l Iso-norm 9706 (1994) for permanence The investigations were supported by the Foundation for Historical Re­ search, which is subsidized by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) Contents Acknowledgements V111 Introduction PART 1.
  • The Lives of Cartographers

    The Lives of Cartographers

    THE LIVES OF CARTOGRAPHERS Completed By: www.usm.maine.edu/maps Directions 1. Compare what you learn with the Maps, Atlases, and Read the fictional journal entries of each cartographer. 2. Cartographer Profiles provided separately. theDetermine cartographer’s which cartographer name, date of wrote birth, each date journal of death, andentry country and fill of in origin. the box above the fictional journals with 3. Complete the booklet by pasting the provided copy of each cartographer’s map in the box under their journal 4. entries. (The first cartographer will not have a map). cartographer. Make sure to fill out the reflection questions for each Introduction Most people have heard of Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Magellen, Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, and John Smith, but few know the stories of the mapmakers who never left Europe: the Hondius and Blaeu families whose maps marked the pinnacle of the Golden Age of Cartography, the mapmakers caught up in the Reformation such as Gerardus Mercator and Olaus Magnus, or the English and French mapmakers who led the campaign for mathematically correct maps free of unscientific mythology. 1 The Influences Most of the maps that we have from Europe during the Middle Ages are based on the writings of early Catholic scholars. For instance, the Venerable Bede wrote that the three sons of Noah, characters in the Bible, settled the three continents of the world: Europe, Asia, and Africa. Thus,Maps many changed medieval greatly maps after include Constantinople “Sem” next fell to to Asia, the Turks“Japhet” in 1453.next to Ancient Greek andEurope, Roman and manuscripts “Cam” next were to Africa.
  • DCRB Catalogue 20.Pdf

    DCRB Catalogue 20.Pdf

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