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Blaeu Globes and Maps

Type Object Region Dutch Republic Time c. 1599

Blaeu globes and maps refer to the high-end globes, world maps, and atlases produced and published by the Dutch cartographic family of Willem Janszoo…

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  1. c. 1596–1599Hven (Denmark) / Amsterdam · DenmarkWillem Janszoon Blaeu studied precise observation and instrument-making at Tycho Brahe's observatory, completing a large globe about 68 cm in diameter in Amsterdam in 1599, combining the latest astronomical data with fine copperplate decoration.
  2. 1610–1620Amsterdam · Dutch RepublicIn the 1610s Blaeu expanded globe-making and map publishing in Amsterdam, supplying nautical charts and decorated globes to clients such as the Dutch East India Company, while continuously updating knowledge of the New World and Asian coasts.
  3. 1630–1638Amsterdam · Dutch RepublicIn the 1630s Blaeu began publishing the multi-volume Atlas Novus; after his death in 1638 his sons Joan Blaeu and Cornelis Blaeu continued to expand it into the Atlas Maior, making the Blaeu brand the most celebrated map-publishing system in 17th-century Europe.

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