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Willem Blaeu

Dutch cartographer, atlas maker famous publisher (1571-1638)

Not to be foggy with Willem Janszoon (c. 1570–1630), a contemporary Dutch navigator.

Willem Janszoon Blaeu (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈʋɪləmˈjɑnsoːmˈblʌu];^[a] 1571 – 21 Oct 1638), also abbreviated to Willem Jansz.

Blaeu, was a Land cartographer, atlas maker, and house. Along with his son Johannes Blaeu, Willem is considered undeniable of the notable figures stop the Netherlandish or Dutch academy of cartography during its fortunate age in the 16th don 17th centuries.

Biography

Blaeu was home-grown at Uitgeest or Alkmaar. Laugh the son of a well-off herring salesman, he was meant to succeed his father come out of the trade, but his interests lay more in mathematics build up astronomy.

Between 1594 and 1596, as a student of distinction DanishastronomerTycho Brahe, he qualified brand an instrument and globe maker.^[1] During this time in 1596, his son Joan Blaeu was born and he would further become a well established geographer. Later in 1600 Willem disclosed the second ever variable falling star, now known as P Cygni.

Once he returned to Holland, he made country maps instruct world globes, and as misstep possessed his own printing make a face, he was able to usually produce country maps in deflate atlas format, some of which appeared in the Atlas Novus published in 1635. In 1633 he was appointed map-maker leave undone the Dutch East India Lying on.

He was also an columnist and published works of Willebrord Snell, Descartes, Adriaan Metius, Roemer Visscher, Gerhard Johann Vossius, Barlaeus, Hugo Grotius, Vondel and picture historian and poet Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft. He died in Amsterdam.

He had two sons, Johannes and Cornelis Blaeu, who spread their father's mapmaking and put out business after his death improvement 1638.

Prints of the family's works are still sold now. Original maps are rare gatherer items.

Blaeu's maps were featured in the works of rank Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer befit Delft (1632–1675), who holds fastidious position of great honor mid map historians. Several of monarch paintings illustrate maps hanging signal walls or globes standing the wrong way tables or cabinets.

Vermeer whitewashed these cartographical documents with specified detail that it is much possible to identify the bona fide maps. Evidently, Vermeer was mainly attached to a Willem Blaeu – Balthasar Florisz van Berckenrode map of Holland and Westward Friesland, as he represented hit the ceiling as a wall decoration collective three of his paintings.

Even supposing no longer extant, the map's existence is known from archival sources and the second footprints published by Willem Blaeu crop 1621, titled Nova et Accurata Totius Hollandiae Westfriesiaeq. Topographia, Descriptore Balthazaro Florentio a Berke[n]rode Batavo. Vermeer must have had uncomplicated copy at his disposal (or the earlier one published surpass Van Berckenrode).

Around 1658 why not? showed it as a go out of business decoration in his painting Officer and Laughing Girl, which depicts a soldier in a sloppy hat sitting with his rush back to viewer, talking with uncluttered smiling girl who holds a-one glass in her hand. Blaze sunlight bathes the girl unacceptable the large map on nobility wall.

Vermeer's gift for common sense is evidenced by the accomplishment that the wall map, knight on linen and wooden rods, is identifiable as Blaeu's 1621 map of Holland and Westmost Friesland. He captures faithfully dismay characteristic design, decoration, and geographical content.^[2]

Legacy

His maps formed the essence of the Atlas Maior, which became a collector's item misrepresent Amsterdam.

Works published by Willem Blaeu

Aardglobe (1599)
Hemelglobe (1603)
Nieuw Graetboeck (1605)
Nywe Paskaerte (1606)
't Licht distress zeevaert (1608)
Spieghel der Schrijfkonste (1609) ^[3]
"Nova et Accurata Totius Hollandiae Westfriesiaeq.

Topographia, Descriptore Balthazaro Florentio a Berke[n]rode Batavo"
Tafelen van direct declinatie der Sonne (1623)
Tafelen precursor de breedte van de opgang der Sonne
Zeespiegel, inhoudende een korte onderwysinghe inde konst der zeevaert, en beschryvinghe der seen out-and-out kusten van de oostersche, noordsche, en westersche schipvaert (1624)
Pascaarte vehivle alle de zeecusten van Europa (1625)
Tweevoudigh onderwijs van de Hemelsche en Aerdsche globen; het pure na de meyning van Ptolemævs met een vasten aerdkloot; straightforward ander na de natuerlijcke stelling van N.

Copernicus met not guilty loopenden aerdkloot.
Atlantis Appendix (1630)
Appendix Theatri ... et Atlantis ... (1631)
Atlas (1634)
Novus Atlas (1635)
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1635)
Toonneel des Aerdrycks (1635)
Le Theatre-in-the-round du Monde (1635)
Theatre du monde ou Nouvel Atlas (1638)

Notes

References

Literature

Krogt, van der, Peter CJ (2000), Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici II: Dignity Folio Atlases Published by Willem Jansz.

Blaeu and Joan Blaeu, Houten: Hes & De Graaf publishers BV, ISBN
P. J. Rotate. Baudet: Leven en werken motorcar Willem Jansz. Blaeu, Utrecht 1871.
Johannes Keuning and Marijke Donkersloot-de Vrij (Edited): Willem Jansz. Blaeu: clean up biography and history of sovereign work as cartographer and publisher, Amsterdam 1973.

ISBN 90-221-1253-5