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Digital Image: 1685 Roggeveen Map of Bermuda (First Nautical Chart of Bermuda)
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Title
Pascaert van 't Eÿland la Bermuda of Sommer Ilands en de andere Eÿlanden daer bÿ geleeghen.
1685 (undated) 20.75 x 23.5 in (52.705 x 59.69 cm) 1 : 180000
1685 (undated) 20.75 x 23.5 in (52.705 x 59.69 cm) 1 : 180000
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Cartographer S
Arent Roggeveen (1658 - November 27, 1679) was a Dutch hydrographer, cartographer, mathematician, poet, and astronomer active in the second half of the 17th century. Robgeveen was born in Delfshaven. Little is known of his education, but in 1658, he settled as a schoolmaster in Middleburg, seat of both the EIC and VOC. He later worked as a surveyor and a measurements expert in the wine industry - positions that made him reasonably wealthy. Around 1670, the VOC contracted him to compile and rectify their disparate archive of highly-secret sea charts. These were engraved and published in 1675 by Roggeveen and Pieter Goos. Roggeveen became obsessed with the notation of Terre Australis; a speculated continued occupying much of the southern hemisphere. In 1767, he received a patent from the Staten-Generaal to lead an expedition of discovery to the South Seas, but was unable to attract the necessary investment; it did not launch until the early 17th century, when his son, Jacob Roggeveen (1659 – 1729), made the voyage from 1721-22, in the process discovering Easter Island. More by this mapmaker...
Pieter Goos (1616 - 1675) was a Dutch cartographer, engraver, publisher and bookseller. Goos was born in Amsterdam, the son of cartographer, globemaker, and engraver Abraham Goos (1590 - 1643). Goos followed in his father's footsteps as a mapmaker and engraver, working with Petrus Kaerius, C.J. Visscher, John Speed, Henricus Hondius, and Johannes Janssonius, among others. Goos began publishing on his own account in 1657 and, from 1666, began issuing a series of well-received nautical atlases. His De Zee-Atlas Ofte Water-Wereld is considered one of the most extraordinary maritime atlases of the Dutch Golden Age. His most famous and elusive atlas, however, was 'The Burning Fen,' Het brandende veen verlichtende de kust van Africa ende America, a collaboration with the mathematician Arent Roggeveen (1658 - 1679). When Goos died in 1675, his widow, Margareta van den Keere, sold his copper printing plates to the publisher Jacobus Robijn (c. 1649 - 1707), who reissued many of them. Learn More...
References
Palmer, M., The Mapping of Bermuda, (ed. R. V. Tooley). Koeman Rog 1 (32). Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Cartes et plans, GE SH 18 PF 119 DIV 5 P 2 D. OCLC 764057892.