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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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    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 (redirect from Atlas Blaeu)
    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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  • 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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    1247 Joan Adon (born 1998), MLB pitcher for Washington Nationals Joan Blaeu (1596–1673), Dutch cartographer Joan Boada, Cuban ballet dancer Joan Capdevila...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    had been [printed more than] a century earlier, [the Dutch mapmaker] Joan Blaeu was the first mapmaker to incorporate his revolutionary heliocentric theory...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Melchisédech Thévenot (c. 1620 – 1692): Map of New Holland 1644, based on a map by the Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu....
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    Venetian Arsenal, 1724 engraving by Joan Blaeu...
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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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    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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    map Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula made by the Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu in 1648 to commemorate the Peace of Westphalia. A map of the world inlaid...
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    dominates the central courtyard of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier. Joan Blaeu, 1649 Richard Pococke, 1745 Engraving by William Pars, 1783 Back of the...
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    to 16th century tombstones of medieval Bosnia 1668 representation by Joan Blaeu of Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Bosnia from 1595 Korenić-Neorić Armorial...
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    Germaniae veteris typus (Old Germany) edited by Willem and Joan Blaeu), 1645, based on information from Tacitus and Pliny...
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