Joan Blaeu was the son of cartographer Willem Blaeu; he was the first mapmaker to incorporate the heliocentric theory of Copernicus, a century after the astronomer’s published his ideas. This latest version of the world from 1662 shows the advances that Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, and others had made in exploration.
New and Most Accurate World Map, c.1662, Printed on ParchmentJohannes Blaeu Dutch (1596 - 1673) |
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Joan Blaeu was the son of cartographer Willem Blaeu; he was the first mapmaker to incorporate the heliocentric theory of Copernicus, a century after the astronomer’s published his ideas. This latest version of the world from 1662 shows the advances that Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, and others had made in exploration. |
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