Knoch, August Wilhelm (sold)
August Wilhelm Knoch (June 8, 1742 - June 2, 1818) was a German naturalist, mapmaker, draftsman, and scientific illustrator. He was born in Braunschweig, the son of a court parson, Georg Ludolfl Otto Knoch. He studied theology at the University of Leipzig and afterwards worked as private tutor to Vienna Privy Councilor Karl Georg Heinrich Count von Hoym. In 1775, the took a caretaker positon at the Braunschweig Collegium Carolinum. There he developed an interest in the natural sciences under the influence of Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann. From 1781 to 1783 he completed an important three-volume work on entomology. In 1789 he became a professor of physics at the Collegium Carolinum. He died in Braunschweig at 77 years.
The world's first zoological map!
Tabula Mundi Geographico Zoologica sistens Quadrupedes hucusque notos sedibus suis adscriptos editit E. A. W. Zimmerman
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This 1783 map by E. A. W. Zimmermann is the first thematic map of the world focused on zoology. Presented on a Mercator Projection and encompassing some 380 degrees of the sphere, Zimmermann's map ignores political boundaries to focus on Linnean zoology and the ... (more details)