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    Willem Jansz. Blaeu, was a Dutch cartographer, atlas maker, and publisher. Along with his son Johannes Blaeu, Willem is considered one of the notable figures...
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    Martini's Novus Atlas Sinensis (Atlas of China, 1655), which were added as respectively the fourth, fifth and sixth volumes of Blaeu's Atlas Novus. The final...
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    cartographer Willem Blaeu. In 1620, Blaeu became a doctor of law but he joined in the work of his father. In 1635, they published the Atlas Novus (full title:...
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  • Terrarum (Ortelius, Flanders, 1570–1612) Mercator's Atlas (1578) 17th century Atlas Novus (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1635–1658; 1645 edition at UCLA) Dell'Arcano...
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    commonly known as Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, the fifth volume of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Sive Atlas Novus, is the first known atlas of Scotland and Ireland...
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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...
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    published atlases as Mercator/Hondius/Janssonius. Under the leadership of Janssonius the Hondius Atlas was steadily enlarged. Renamed Atlas Novus, it had...
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    Don (river) (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    vulgo Moscovia, pars australis". In Blaeu, Willem; Blaeu, Joan (eds.). Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, sive Atlas Novus in quo Tabulæ et Descriptiones Omnium...
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    and Novus Atlas Sinensis (New Atlas of China) (1655). In 1665, Martini's work was reissued as part of Atlas Maior (great atlas), a much-praised atlas by...
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    Martini's most important work is Novus Atlas Sinensis, which appeared as part of volume 10 of Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior (Amsterdam 1655). This work,...
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    Jesuit in China, drew his own Novus Atlas Sinensis (based on the Guang Yu Tu), which was published in Amsterdam by Joan Blaeu in 1655. Martini's map remained...
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    made by Timothy Pont (c.1560–c.1627), which formed the basis for the Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, and for organizing and publishing a bibliography compiled...
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    Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (category Atlases)
    globe. From the 1630s, the Blaeu family issued their work under a similar title, Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive, Atlas Novus. All the editions had the same...
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    Wade-Giles romanization. Martini, Martino (1655), "Nanking sive Kiangnan", Novus Atlas Sinensis (in Latin). Roberts, Edmund (1837). Embassy to the Eastern Courts...
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    Harmonia Macrocosmica (category Classical star atlases)
    Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and Johannes Blaeu's Atlas Maior. It is often described as the most beautiful celestial atlas ever published. In the foreword to...
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    Seil (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    the Isles': a reappraisal, vol. 7 Blaeu, Joan (1654), "Blaeu Atlas of Scotland (Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Sive Atlas Novus)", National Library of Scotland...
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    Calf of Eday (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    ISBN 978-1-84195-454-7. Irvine, James M. (ed.) (2006) The Orkneys and Schetland in Blaeu's Atlas Novus of 1654. Ashtead. James M. Irvine. ISBN 0-9544571-2-9 Noble, Gordon...
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    the Chinese Empire in Martino Martini and Joan Blaeu's 1655 Novus Atlas Sinensis ("New Chinese Atlas"). Jiangnan Province Chinese 江南省 Literal meaning...
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    Kilconquhar Loch (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    reed peat bog) in 1599 and referred to as Keanwchar Loch by 1654 in Blaeu's Atlas Novus. Samples of the loch bed support its origin as a bog and there is...
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    Dankov (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, sive Atlas Novus in quo Tabulæ et Descriptiones Omnium Regionum, Editæ a Guiljel et Ioanne Blaeu, 1645. Липецкий областной Совет...
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    Duchy of Krnov (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    Jägerndorf (German) 1377–1849 Coat of arms Duchies of Opava and Krnov, map from Atlas Novus by Joan Blaeu, 1645 Status Silesian duchy Fiefdom of the Bohemian Crown Capital...
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    Duchy of Opava with Krnov, map from Atlas Novus by Joan Blaeu, 1645...
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    Eynhallow (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    Norse named the island Eyinhelga, meaning "holy island". Johan Blaeu's 17th century Atlas Novus records the name as Alhallow. Skene's 19th century translation...
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    proportions. On return to Europe, an account of the voyage, called Mundus Novus ("New World"), was published under Vespucci's name in 1502 or 1503, although...
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     135–8 Irvine, James M. (ed.) (2006) The Orkneys and Schetland in Blaeu's Atlas Novus of 1654. Ashtead: James M. Irvine. ISBN 0-9544571-2-9 Thomson, William...
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    Duchy of Nysa (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    Silesia by Martin Helwig, native of Nysa, published in 1645 in Atlas novus of Willem and Joan Blaeu. The Duchy of Nysa (here depicted as DVCATUS GROTKAVIENSIS)...
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    Janssonius printed Goos's Novus tabularum geographicarum Belgicae liber, in Amsterdam, and Goos engraved seven maps for Janssonius's atlas of Germany. In 1620...
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    Sanday, Orkney (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    Housay that is now just a mound. In the mid-17th century an annexe to Blaeu's Atlas Novus of Scotland recorded that Sanday's low lying topography meant that...
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  • sources (atlases and maps), dating back to 1606, or nearly fifty years before the manuscript maps of the Polish Jesuit Michael Boym and the Novus Atlas Sinensis...
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    Kola Peninsula (category Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas)
    geographical statistics of Russia) - Yudychvumchorr 2007 Atlas of Murmansk Oblast, pp. 6–7 1971 Atlas of Murmansk Oblast, p. II. Field "Climate of Murmansk"...
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