Blaeu

American  

[blou] / blaʊ /

Or Blaeuw,

noun

1. Willem Janszoon 1571–1638, Dutch cartographer, geographer, astronomer, and mathematician.

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Example Sentences

Their 1634 map of the West Indies, known informally as the Blaeu after the Dutch cartographer Willem Janszoon Blaeu who drew it, is one of only 10 in the world.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2014

D'Anville copied from Blaeu in 1746, and so the name got into some later atlases.

From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by Dickey, J. M. (John Marcus)

The maps cover all parts of the world, and were produced by renowned cartographers, such as Ortelius, Mercator, Blaeu, Janssonius, Hondius, Visscher, de Wit, etc.

From A Short History of EBooks by Lebert, Marie

Reigersberg, Blaeu, Vossius himself, however much devoted to Grotius, beheld with concern the printing of this book, because they did not doubt but it would increase the number of his enemies.

From The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands by Butler, Charles

Meanwhile Colonel Elliot, we know, has no Catlockhill where he wants it; he has only Gatliehill, unless his Blaeu varies from my copy, and Gatliehill is not Catlockhill.

From Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy by Lang, Andrew