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

The theological works were printed in four volumes in folio, by the heirs of Blaeu, at Amsterdam, in 1679.

From The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works by Burigny, Jean Lévesque de

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

From From the Print Media to the Internet 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

But then why does Blaeu call it, not Catlockhill, nor Catlie hill, nor "Catlie" even, but "Gatlie," for so it is distinctly printed on my copy of the map?

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