Blaeu
or Blaeuw, Blaew
[blou]
- Wil·lem Jans·zoon [vil-uh m yahn-suh n, -sohn] /ˈvɪl əm ˈyɑn sən, -soʊn/, 1571–1638, Dutch cartographer, geographer, astronomer, and mathematician.
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D'Anville copied from Blaeu in 1746, and so the name got into some later atlases.
Blaeu, as he states, marked on his globe the course of this expedition.
Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Vol IIEdward Luther Stevenson
English, so that the price of Blaeu's four volume Atlas of 1650 was 12 10s.
In the year 1602 Blaeu issued a terrestrial and a celestial globe, each having a diameter of 23 cm.
Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Vol IIEdward Luther Stevenson
Blaeu for certain features of this edition, in which he followed a practice of the time.
Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Vol IIEdward Luther Stevenson