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Blaeu World Atlas

Type Object Region Europe Time 1630–1640

The Blaeu World Atlas, the pinnacle of 17th-century Dutch Golden Age cartography, was published in Amsterdam by Willem Janszoon Blaeu and his son Joa…

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  1. c. 1630–1635Amsterdam · AmsterdamIn the early 1630s Willem Blaeu continued publishing multi-volume maps such as the Atlas Novus, integrating the latest sailing logs and Dutch East India Company intelligence, using copperplate printing and hand-coloring to serve the European aristocratic and merchant markets.
  2. 1638–1640Amsterdam · AmsterdamAfter Willem Blaeu died in 1638, his son Joan Blaeu took over the publishing business and continued expanding the world map series, laying the foundation for the grand scale of the Atlas Maior in the 1660s.
  3. c. 1635–1640Amsterdam · AmsterdamIn the 1630s the Blaeu atlas incorporated the latest surveys of the New World, the East Asian coasts, and the islands of the South Seas, reflecting the expansion of the Dutch East India Company and global trade networks, and became the authoritative reference for European elites' understanding of world geography.

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