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Book/Printed Material Herrn Johann Anderson ... Nachrichten von Island, Grönland und der strasse Davis zum wahren nutzen der wissenschaften und der handlung. Mit kupfern, und einer nach den neuesten und in diesem werke angegebenen entdeckungen, genau eingerichteten landcharte. Nebst einem vorberichte von den lebensumständen des Herrn verfassers.

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  • Herrn Johann Anderson ... Nachrichten von Island, Grönland und der strasse Davis zum wahren nutzen der wissenschaften und der handlung. Mit kupfern, und einer nach den neuesten und in diesem werke angegebenen entdeckungen, genau eingerichteten landcharte. Nebst einem vorberichte von den lebensumständen des Herrn verfassers.

Summary

  • Johann Anderson (1674-1743) was the son of a whaling ship owner from Hamburg, Germany. He became a lawyer, served in the Hamburg Senate, and was mayor of the city for many years. Anderson systematically gathered the available literature on Iceland, Greenland, and the adjacent seas, as well as gleaned information from sailors and merchants. This book, which he prepared mainly in the 1730s, was published in 1746, after his death. It includes descriptions of the land and peoples of Iceland and Greenland, and covers topics ranging from the herring fishery to the volumes of oil produced by different species of whales. Although he was wrong on some points, Anderson made scientific contributions in a number of areas. He developed a system for classifying species of whales and made estimates of commercial marine stocks that prefigured later work in fisheries biology. Appended to the work was a grammar and vocabulary of the Inuit language spoken on Greenland, and a selection of extracts from religious texts presented in German, Danish, and Inuit. Anderson's book was valued throughout Europe, and was translated into and published in Danish (1748), Dutch (1750), and French (1750). World Digital Library.

Names

  • Anderson, Johann, 1674-1743.
  • Winckler, Johann Dietrich, 1711-1784.

Created / Published

  • Hamburg, G.C. Grund, 1746.

Headings

  • -  Inuit language
  • -  Zoology--Greenland
  • -  Zoology--Iceland
  • -  Greenland--Description and travel
  • -  Iceland--Description and travel

Notes

  • -  "Vorbericht" signed: Z**. [i.e. J.D. Winckler]
  • -  Anhang: Dictionariolum (Danish-German-Eskimo); Appendix formularum loquendi usitatissimarum [etc.]: p. 285-328.
  • -  digital files not viewed; td12 2008-11-20
  • -  LAC scc 2018-12-11 update (1 card)

Medium

  • 15 p.l., 328, [5] p. front., 4 fold. pl., fold. map. 20 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • QL288 .A5

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 06031376

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Chicago citation style:

Anderson, Johann, and Johann Dietrich Winckler. Herrn Johann Anderson ...Nachrichten von Island, Grönland und der strasse Davis zum wahren nutzen der wissenschaften und der handlung. Mit kupfern, und einer nach den neuesten und in diesem werke angegebenen entdeckungen, genau eingerichteten landcharte. Nebst einem vorberichte von den lebensumständen des Herrn verfassers. Hamburg, G.C. Grund, 1746. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/06031376/.

APA citation style:

Anderson, J. & Winckler, J. D. (1746) Herrn Johann Anderson ...Nachrichten von Island, Grönland und der strasse Davis zum wahren nutzen der wissenschaften und der handlung. Mit kupfern, und einer nach den neuesten und in diesem werke angegebenen entdeckungen, genau eingerichteten landcharte. Nebst einem vorberichte von den lebensumständen des Herrn verfassers. Hamburg, G.C. Grund. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/06031376/.

MLA citation style:

Anderson, Johann, and Johann Dietrich Winckler. Herrn Johann Anderson ...Nachrichten von Island, Grönland und der strasse Davis zum wahren nutzen der wissenschaften und der handlung. Mit kupfern, und einer nach den neuesten und in diesem werke angegebenen entdeckungen, genau eingerichteten landcharte. Nebst einem vorberichte von den lebensumständen des Herrn verfassers. Hamburg, G.C. Grund, 1746. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/06031376/>.