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Blaeu is the name of * Willem Blaeu (1571–1638), Dutch cartographer and father of Joan Blaeu * Joan Blaeu (1596–1673), Dutch cartographer and son of Willem Blaeu * ''Blaeu Atlas of Scotland'', by Joan Blaeu, published in 1654 * ''Atlas Blaeu'' or ''Atlas Maior'', by Joan Blaeu, published in 1635 * ''Stedenboek Blaeu'' or '' Toonneel der Steeden'', by Joan Blaeu, published in 1649 See also * Blaauw Blaauw () is a Dutch language, Dutch surname. It is an archaic spelling of modern Dutch ''blauw'', meaning ''blue''. This may have referred to the pale skin, the eyes, or the clothes of the original bearer of the name or the surname may be metonymic ...

Willem Blaeu
Willem Janszoon Blaeu (; 157121 October 1638), also abbreviated to Willem Jansz. Blaeu, was a Dutch cartographer, atlas maker, and publisher. Along with his son Johannes Blaeu, Willem is considered one of the notable figures of the Netherlandish or Dutch school of cartography during its golden age in the 16th and 17th centuries. 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. 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 Holland, he made country maps and world globes, and as he possessed his own printing works, he was able to regula ...
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Joan Blaeu
Joan Blaeu (; 23 September 1596 – 21 December 1673), also called Johannes Blaeu, was a Dutch cartographer and the official cartographer of the Dutch East India Company. Blaeu is most notable for his map published in 1648, which was the first map to incorporate the heliocentric theory into a map of the world and was the first map that incorporated the discoveries of Abel Tasman. Blaeu renamed what is now New Zealand as ''Nieuw Zeeland'' after the Dutch province of Zeeland; the anglicized version of the name is still in use today. Biography Early life Blau was born in Alkmaar, the son of cartographer Willem Blaeu. In 1620, Blaeu became a doctor of law but he joined in the work of his father. In 1635, they published the '' Atlas Novus'' (full title: ''Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive, Atlas novus'') in two volumes. Joan and his brother Cornelius took over the studio after their father died in 1638. Blaeu succeeded his father as the official cartographer of the Dutch East India ...
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Blaeu Atlas Of Scotland
The book commonly known as Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, the fifth volume of '' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Sive Atlas Novus'', is the first known atlas of Scotland and Ireland. It was compiled by Joan Blaeu, and contains 49 engraved maps and 154 pages of descriptive text written in Latin; it was first published in 1654. Most of the maps were made by Timothy Pont, a Scottish cartographer. Those maps, made between 1583 and 1596, were collected, edited, and augmented with other maps (made by Robert Gordon of Straloch and his son James) by John Scot, Lord Scotstarvit, a Scottish laird. It is the first known atlas of Scotland, and is praised for its quality and its importance; cartobibliographer Jeffrey Stone said in 1972 that for a century after its publication nothing notable happened in the cartography of Scotland. A translated version, including additional documentation, was published in association with the National Library of Scotland in 2006. Description and genesis Blaeu's Atlas o ...
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Atlas Maior
The ''Atlas Maior'' is the final version of Joan Blaeu's atlas, published in Amsterdam between 1662 and 1672, in Latin (11 volumes), French (12 volumes), Dutch (9 volumes), German (10 volumes) and Spanish (10 volumes), containing 594 maps and around 3,000 pages of text. It was the largest and most expensive book published in the seventeenth century. Earlier, much smaller versions, titled ''Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, sive, Atlas Novus'', were published from 1634 onwards. Like Abraham Ortelius's ''Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'' (1570), the ''Atlas Maior'' is widely considered a masterpiece of the Golden Age of Dutch/Netherlandish cartography (approximately 1570s–1670s). History Somewhere around 1604 Willem Blaeu settled down in Amsterdam and opened a shop on the Damrak, where he produced and sold scientific instruments, globes and maps. He was also a publisher, editor and engraver. In 1629, Willem Blaeu bought the copperplates of several dozens of maps from Jodocus Hondius II's ...
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