Jodocus Hondius
Jodocus Hondius | |
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Born | 17 October 1563 Wakken, Belgium |
Died | 12 February 1612 Amsterdam, Netherlands | (aged 48)
Scientific career | |
Fields | Cartography |
Jodocus Hondius (
Biography
Hondius was born in
While in England, Hondius was instrumental in publicizing the work of Francis Drake, who had made a circumnavigation of the world in the late 1570s. In particular, in 1589 Hondius produced a now famous map of the bay of New Albion, where Drake briefly established a settlement on the west coast of North America at Drake's Cove, California.[4] Hondius is also thought to be the artist of several well-known portraits of Drake that are now in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Also Hondius had engraved charts in the Mariners Mirrour (1588) and the first English globes, those of Emery Molynex completed in 1592.[citation needed]
In 1593, accompanied by his wife and Pieter van der Keere, he moved to Amsterdam where he remained until the end of his life. In co-operation with the Amsterdam publisher Cornelis Claesz in 1604 he purchased the plates of Gerard Mercator's Atlas from Mercator's grandson. Mercator's work had languished in comparison to the rival Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by
In the French edition of the Atlas Minor we find one of the first instances of a
Hondius used copper plates to print John Speed's atlas The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, which was published in 1611/2.[8]
Hondius died, aged 48 (1612), in Amsterdam. After his death, his publishing work in Amsterdam was continued by his widow, two sons, Jodocus II and Henricus, and son-in-law Johannes Janssonius, whose name appears on the Atlas as co-publisher after 1633.[9] Eventually, starting with the first 1606 edition in Latin, about 50 editions of the Atlas were released in the main European languages. In the Islamic world, the atlas was partially translated by the Turkish scholar Kâtip Çelebi. The series is sometimes called the "Mercator/Hondius/Janssonius" series because of Janssonius's later contributions.
The Hondius Inlet in Antarctica is named after Jodocus Hondius.[10]
Portrayal of globes in Vermeer's paintings
Scholars have argued that the globes depicted in celebrated 17th-century painter
See also
References
- ^ Brown, Kevin J. Maps Through the Ages. White Star Publishers. p. 44.
- ISBN 9781409439707.
- ^ Hind, Arthur (1952). Engraving in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Part I. Cambridge University Press. pp. 203–4.
- ^ "2020 Actions Taken". State of California. 2020. Archived from the original on 1 May 2021. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
- ^ Skelton; R. A. (1965). "Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th Centuries".
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(help) - ^ Aa, A. J. van der (1862). "Abraham Goos". Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden. Vol. 7. pp. 291–92.
- ^ Van der Dussen, Jan and Kevin Wilson (1995). The History of the Idea of Europe. Routledge. p. 28.
- ^ "Maps : The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine: presenting an exact geography of the kingdomes of England, Scotland, Ireland,..." Cambridge Digital Library. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
- ^ "Venezuela with the Southern Part of New Andalusia". World Digital Library. 1612–1699. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
- ^ "Gazetteer - AADC". data.aad.gov.au. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
- ^ Welu, James (1977). Vermeer and Cartography. Boston: Boston University.
Literature
- Peter van der Krogt (ed.): Koeman's atlantes Neerlandici, Vol. 1: The folio atlases published by Gerard Mercator, Jodocus Hondius, Henricus Hondius, Johannes Janssonius and their successors, 't Goy-Houten 1997, ISBN 90-6194-268-3