Matthias Quad (1557–1613) was an engraver and cartographer from Cologne. He was the first European mapmaker to use dotted lines to indicate international borders.[1]
Life
editMatthias Quad was born and learnt engraving in the Netherlands. An engraver in wood and stone,[2] Quad collaborated with the Cologne publisher Johann Bussemacher to publish a quarto atlas of Europe in 1592.[3] This was expanded into a Geographisches Handtbuch (1599), with more text than maps, and then into a proper atlas, Fasciculus Geographicus (1608).[2]
Works
edit- Europea totius orbis terrarum praestantissimae..., 1592 (1596 edition on Internet Archive)
- Globi terrestris compendium, 1598 (On Google Books)
- Enchiridion Cosmographicum, 1599 (On Google Books)
- Geographisches Handtbuch, 1599/1600 (On Google Books)
- Deliciae Germaniae sive totius Germaniae itinerarium, 1600 (On Google Books)
- Itinerarium Universae Germaniae, 1602 (On Google Books)
- Deliciae Hispaniae et index viatorius indicans itinera, 1604 (On Google Books)
- Fasciculus Geographicus, 1608 (On Google Books)
References
edit- ^ Helmut Walser Smith, The Continuities of German History (Cambridge University Press, 2008), p. 44.
- ^ a b Leo Bagrow; R a Skelton (2009). History of Cartography (enlarged 2nd ed.). Transaction Publishers. p. 266. ISBN 978-1-4128-1154-5. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
- ^ Rodney W. Shirley (2009). Courtiers and cannibals, angels and amazons: the art of the decorative cartographic titlepage. Hes & De Graaf. p. 82. ISBN 978-90-6194-060-9. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
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