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 map of France from the mid-seventeenth century is a tribute to Western science and mathematics that blossomed in the Enlightenment and birthed the modern age.
Gallia, (France) from the Theater du Monde, or Nouvel Atlas, c.1660, Engraving 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 map of France from the mid-seventeenth century is a tribute to Western science and mathematics that blossomed in the Enlightenment and birthed the modern age. |
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