Blaeu

[ blou ]

/ blaʊ /

Wil·lem Jans·zoon

[vil-uhm -yahn-suhn, -sohn], /ˈvɪl əm ˈyɑn sən, -soʊn/, 1571–1638, Dutch cartographer, geographer, astronomer, and mathematician.

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English, so that the price of Blaeu's four volume Atlas of 1650 was 12 10s.
The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660|David Masson
D'Anville copied from Blaeu in 1746, and so the name got into some later atlases.
Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia|Various
Blaeu of Amsterdam as a testimony of honor due and of a grateful mind.
Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Vol II|Edward Luther Stevenson
The theological works were printed in four volumes in folio, by the heirs of Blaeu, at Amsterdam, in 1679.
The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius|Jean Lvesque de Burigny

Blaeu, as he states, marked on his globe the course of this expedition.
Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Vol II|Edward Luther Stevenson