Willem Blaeu
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Willem Janszoon Blaeu (Dutch pronunciation:
Biography
Blaeu was born at Uitgeest or Alkmaar. As the son of a well-to-do herring salesman, he was destined to succeed his father in the trade, but his interests lay more in mathematics and astronomy. Between 1594 and 1596, as a student of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, he qualified as an instrument and globe maker.[2] During this time in 1596, his son Joan Blaeu was born and he would also become a well established cartographer. Later in 1600 Willem discovered the second ever variable star, now known as P Cygni.
Once he returned to
.He had two sons, Johannes and Cornelis Blaeu, who continued their father's mapmaking and publishing business after his death in 1638. Prints of the family's works are still sold today. Original maps are rare collector items.
Blaeu's maps were featured in the works of the Dutch painter
Legacy
His maps formed the bulk of the Atlas Maior, which became a collector's item in Amsterdam.
Works published by Willem Blaeu
- Aardglobe (1599)
- Hemelglobe (1603)
- Nieuw Graetboeck (1605)
- Nywe Paskaerte (1606)
- 't Licht der zeevaert (1608)
- Spieghel der Schrijfkonste (1609) [4]
- "Nova et Accurata Totius Hollandiae Westfriesiaeq. Topographia, Descriptore Balthazaro Florentio a Berke[n]rode Batavo"
- Tafelen van de declinatie der Sonne (1623)
- Tafelen van de breedte van de opgang der Sonne
- Zeespiegel, inhoudende een korte onderwysinghe inde konst der zeevaert, en beschryvinghe der seen en kusten van de oostersche, noordsche, en westersche schipvaert (1624)
- Pascaarte van alle de zeecusten van Europa (1625)
- Tweevoudigh onderwijs van de Hemelsche en Aerdsche globen; het een na de meyning van Ptolemævs met een vasten aerdkloot; het ander na de natuerlijcke stelling van N. Copernicus met een 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 du Monde (1635)
- Theatre du monde ou Nouvel Atlas (1638)
See also
References
- ^ Janszoon in isolation: [ˈjɑnsoːn].
- ISBN 978-1-84706-156-0.
- ^ van der Krogt, Peter. 1998. "Vermeer's Blaeu Period." Mercator's World. Volume 3 (5) September/October 1998. Page 82.
- ^ "Graphic Arts: April 2010 Archives".
Literature
- ISBN 90-6194-438-4
- P. J. H. Baudet: Leven en werken van Willem Jansz. Blaeu, Utrecht 1871.
- Johannes Keuning and Marijke Donkersloot-de Vrij (Edited): Willem Jansz. Blaeu: a biography and history of his work as cartographer and publisher, Amsterdam 1973. ISBN 90-221-1253-5
External links
- Galileo Project facts on Willem Blaeu
- Literature by and about Willem Blaeu in the German National Library catalogue
- Selection of scanned maps by Willem Blaeu, Eran Laor Cartographic Collection, The National Library of Israel. List in Library catalog.
- Willem Blaeu Het Licht der Zee-vaert, Amsterdam 1608, Universitätsbibliothek Marburg – book published by Willem
- "Making Sense of the Pre-Columbian", Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520–1820. – explains how Willem's maps perpetuated the European notion of America's Indians