![]() ![]() In 1633 he was appointed Hydrographer for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Later he started producing map and sea charts, including his first world map in 1605. 1599 he went to Amsterdam and founded a business as globe maker. He was trained from 1594 to 1596 by the famous danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. Willem Janszoon Blaeu was born 1571 in Alkmaar. 255 Van der Krogt, P.: Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, 0001:2A. Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula auct: Guiljelmo Blaeuw. The map was replaced by a two hemispheres world map prepared by Willem's son Joan from 1658 onwards. This is the fourth state of the map from a French edition of Blaeu's Atlas, printed between 16. The map has decorative cartouches for the title, dedication and explanation, two spheres for the north and south poles, a compass roses and numerous ships and sea monsters. Along the bottom are seven vignettes showing the seven ancient wonders of the world: the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Colossus over the harbour at Rhodos, the Pyramids, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus at Caria, the Temple of Diane, the Statue of Jupiter, and the conical lighthouse of Alexandria. Down the sides are, on the left, four panels illustrating the elements (Fire, Water, Air and Earth), and on the right, the four seasons. Along the top are allegorical of the sun and the moon and the known five planets - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. The most striking characteristic are the superb border decorations. The engraver Josua van den Ende signed in the lower right corner. The map has been expertly reduced from the Blaeu's large world map of 1605. celebrated as one of the supreme examples of the map maker's art. 255:Ĭlassic single-sheet world map on Mercator's projection. ![]() Shirley describes this world map in The Mapping of the World, No. From the most expensive book published in the 17th century, an eleven-volume atlas containing 593 hand-coloured maps. Willem Blaeu's world map with the decorative panels helped establish an iconography in the popular imagination which endures to this days. This map represents the apogee of seventeenth century Dutch cartography. Perhaps the finest world map ever printed. ![]() One of the Most Famous World Maps of Dutch Cartography with Stunning Old Colours. ![]()
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