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Mapmaker:
Willem Janzoon Blaeu (1571 - 1638)
Spectacular world double hemisphere world map on a polar projection by one of the most C17th Dutch map makers, published by Gerald Valk Although made by Blaeu it was not published by him in his Atlas Major, the cause probably … Read Full Description
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Spectacular world double hemisphere world map on a polar projection by one of the most C17th Dutch map makers, published by Gerald Valk
Although made by Blaeu it was not published by him in his Atlas Major, the cause probably being the great fire in 1672 which destroyed his publishing business. Somehow Valk obtained the plate and used it in his atlases. The map unusually for the period is on a polar projection, distinguishing it from Blaeu’s other atlas world maps which were on an equatorial projection. Australia is shown according to Tasman and California as an island. A rare and highly desirable decorative world map.
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Mapmaker:
Willem Janzoon Blaeu (1571-1638)
One of the most influential mapmakers of the Golden Age of mapmaking.
Blaeu was born at Uitgeest or Alkmaar, the son of a herring salesman and destined to succeed his father in the trade, but his interests lay more in Mathematics and Astronomy. Between 1594 and 1596 he was a student of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and qualified as an instrument and globe maker. In 1600 he discovered the second ever variable star now known as P Cygni. On his return to the Netherlands, he made published his own maps and world globes. He ran his own printing works which allowed him to continually update his own atlases such as his, Atlas Novus published in 1635.
In 1633 he was appointed map-maker for the VOC .
He died in Amsterdam in 1638 and his business was continued by his two sons, Johannes and Cornelis Blaeu.
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