Gerald Valck, Dutch engraver and mappist, rescued esteemed cartographer Johannes Blaeu’s polar projection plate after a fire destroyed Blaeu’s publishing house. Valck customized the print with his own stylings, but this is unmistakably a Blaeu through and through. As inaccurate as the Arctic appeared on seventeenth-century maps, the opposite end of the world was a mystery till the twentieth century.
Novus Projection of Earthly Polar Extremities, c.1695, Engraving on ParchmentGerard Valck Dutch (1652 - 1726) |
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Gerald Valck, Dutch engraver and mappist, rescued esteemed cartographer Johannes Blaeu’s polar projection plate after a fire destroyed Blaeu’s publishing house. Valck customized the print with his own stylings, but this is unmistakably a Blaeu through and through. As inaccurate as the Arctic appeared on seventeenth-century maps, the opposite end of the world was a mystery till the twentieth century. |
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