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Joan Blaeu (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjoːɑn ˈblʌu]; 23 September 1596 – 21 December 1673; also called Johannes Blaeu) was a Dutch cartographer born in Alkmaar, the son of cartographer Willem Blaeu.

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Joan Blaeu

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Joan Blaeu (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjoːɑn ˈblʌu]; 23 September 1596 – 21 December 1673; also called Johannes Blaeu) was a Dutch cartographer born in Alkmaar...

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Willem Blaeu

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qualified as an instrument and globe maker. During this time in 1596, his son Joan Blaeu was born and he would also become a well established cartographer. Later...

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Atlas Maior

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The Atlas Maior is the final version of Joan Blaeu's atlas, published in Amsterdam between 1662 and 1672, in Latin (11 volumes), French (12 volumes), Dutch...

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Blaeu

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Willem Blaeu Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, by Joan Blaeu, published in 1654 Atlas Blaeu or Atlas Maior, by Joan Blaeu, published in 1635 Stedenboek Blaeu or Toonneel...

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Atlas

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Duisburg, in present-day Germany, 1595) Atlas Novus (Joan Blaeu, Netherlands, 1635–1658) Atlas Maior (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1662–1667) Cartes générales de toutes...

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Gevangenpoort

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collection have been temporarily displayed in the gallery. On this map by Joan Blaeu from 1652, the gate can be seen adjoining the Hofvijver. The De Witt brothers...

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History of cartography

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Jodocus Hondius, Henricus Hondius II, Hendrik Hondius I, Willem Blaeu, Joan Blaeu, Andreas Cellarius, Gerard de Jode, Cornelis de Jode, Nicolaes Visscher...

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Laurens van der Hem

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work of cartography and art published by his contemporary and friend Joan Blaeu. Van der Hem was born in Amsterdam as the son of the lawyer Ysbrand van...

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European exploration of Australia

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of Dutch charts of much of Australia's coast. Based on the 1648 map by Joan Blaeu, Nova et Accuratissima Terrarum Orbis Tabula, it incorporated Tasman's...

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Arafura Sea

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Retrieved 28 December 2020. Joan Blaeu Archipelagus Orientalis, sive Asiaticus Apud Ioannem Blaeu Published: Amsterdam Apud Joannem Blaeu, 1663 Earl, George Windsor;...

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Bembridge

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separated from the remainder of the Isle of Wight by Brading Haven. On the Joan Blaeu map of 1665, Bembridge is shown as Binbridge Iſle, nearly separated from...

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Continent

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Hollandia Nova, 1659 map prepared by Joan Blaeu based on voyages by Abel Tasman and Willem Jansz, this image shows a French edition of 1663...

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Cowdenbeath

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seen near the church. The Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, published in 1654 by eminent 17th-century Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu, refers to Cowden Beth in the...

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Castello Plan

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draughtsman from a lost Cortelyou original. Around 1667, cartographer Joan Blaeu (1596–1673) bound the existing plan to an atlas, together with other hand-crafted...

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Schoonhoven

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mainly faced eastward (as can be seen on the 1652 map of Schoonhoven by Joan Blaeu), because of the historically strategical location on the border between...

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Abbotshaugh Community Woodland

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carried to Amsterdam, there they revised Pont's maps with the aid of Joan Blaeu. Whilst in Amsterdam in 1645, Sir John Scot dictated from memory the description...

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Wends

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typus (Old Germany). Aestui, Venedi, Gythones and Ingaevones are visible on the right upper corner of the map. Edited by Willem and Joan Blaeu, 1645....

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Lower Largo

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extensive trading rights of a royal burgh. In 1654, Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu mentions Largo as "Largow burne-mouth" in his Nova Fifae Descriptio. Lower...

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Pope Joan

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Pope Joan (Ioannes Anglicus, 855–857) was, according to legend, a woman who reigned as pope for two years during the Middle Ages. Her story first appeared...

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Names of Beijing

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of Atlas Maior (great atlas), a much-praised atlas by Dutch publisher Joan Blaeu. In English, both "Pekin" and "Peking" remained common until the 1890s...

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William Camden

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and reprinted in 1639; and versions of the text were also included in Joan Blaeu's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (published in Amsterdam in 1645) and in Jan Janssonius's...

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Pentland Hills

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the maps of the Dutch cartographers Hondius (1630s) and Joan Blaeu (1654). Interestingly, Blaeu gives the name in two forms, in two different locations:...

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Venetian Arsenal

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Venetian Arsenal, 1724 engraving by Joan Blaeu...

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Matthew Flinders

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Amsterdam Town Hall, in fact it appears to be an almost exact copy of that of Joan Blaeu in his Archipelagus Orientalis sive Asiaticus published in 1659. It seems...

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Zwolle

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Laurens Jan Brinkhorst (born 1937), former Minister of Economic Affairs Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol (1741–1784), role in the Batavian Republic Wybo...

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Soham

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Caster: 163–164. Cantabrigensis Comitatvs – Atlas Maior, vol 5, map 24 – Joan Blaeu, 1667 – BL 114.h(star).5.(24) Liber Eliensis. 1100s. pp. Lib 2, p203....

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List of cartographers

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Luzon and part of the Chinese coast. Willem Janszoon Blaeu (Netherlands, 1571–1638), father of Joan Blaeu Giovanni Battista Boazio, mapped Sir Francis Drake's...

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Blaeu Atlas of Scotland

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is the first known atlas of Scotland and Ireland. It was compiled by Joan Blaeu, and contains 49 engraved maps and 154 pages of descriptive text written...

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