Georg Friedrich Meyer (geodesist)

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Georg Friedrich Meyer (born February 11, 1645 in Basel , † December 25, 1693 there ) was a Swiss geodesist , mathematician and cartographer of the second half of the 17th century.

Meyer attended high school in Basel and was trained by his father in mathematics, surveying and fortress construction. He worked and studied in Alsace and Lorraine until 1673 . Back in Basel he worked as a math teacher and cartographer. From 1687 to 1691 Meyer was a member of the Small Council . In 1689 Meyer became a Weinherr, in 1690 a captain in the Steinenquartier and in 1691 a wage lord, d. H. Head of Basel Construction.

Meyer's pen includes numerous plans and maps of the Basel area , but also some of the neighboring Alsace. These include above all Landvogtei maps (office maps), border plans over the canton, as well as road and land register maps. Emanuel Büchel later made very exact copies of some of Meyer's plans .

Georg Friedrich Meyer also wrote two papers:

  • Doctrina triangulorum sive trigonometria : the teaching / of measurement of the triangles corresponds to the use of the Tabularum Sinuum, Tangentium & Secantium [...] (first published individually in 1678 by the "Schriftgiesserei" HR and L. König and JR Genath in Basel)
  • Stereometria sive demensio solidorum: this is external measurement of physical things / or visor art (first published individually in 1675 by Genath in Basel, again in 1691).

literature

  • Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Meyer, Georg Friedrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Baselbieter Heimatschutz (Ed.), Georg Schwörer, Paul Suter, Peter Suter (arr.): Selection from the field recordings of the Basel geometer Georg Friedrich Meyer (1643–1693) (loose-leaf collection), Liestal: Sohn, 1960.
  • Paul Suter: GF Meyer, a Basel cartographer of the 17th century . In: Der Schweizer Geograph, no. 5, pp. 119–125 and no. 6, pp. 137–148, Bern 1933
  • Fritz Burckhardt: About plans and maps of the Basel area from the 17th century . In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 5 (1906), pp. 291–360 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

  1. ↑ The stereometria was digitized as full text in PDF format in the ETH Zurich library , but online access is only possible for members of the ETH: [1]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was created automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / ebooks.ethbib.ethz.ch  
  2. ↑ The two writings also appeared together in 1678, supplemented by the Compendium geometriae practicae by the Basel-based "Lohnherrn" (geometer employed by the city) Jakob Meyer at Genath in Basel. This printing company was founded in 1617 by Johann Jakob Genath (1582–1654) from Delémont , was continued by his descendants and became known as "Haas'sche Schriftgiesserei" under its later owner Johann Wilhelm Haas (1698–1764).

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personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Georg Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss geodesist, mathematician and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1645
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1693
Place of death Basel