#joan blaeu

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Two suns with different personalities from volume one of our Blaeu Atlas. One leonine as it sits in the center of a diagram of Copernicus' model, the other pensive as it rises over Tycho Brahe's observatory.

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Tiny prancing reindeer, from the map of Norway in volume one of Joan Blaeu's eleven-volume Atlas Major, 1662

[mapsontheweb]

A map of Venice in 1636 by Joan Blaeu

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

Joan Blaeu, Dobunos [The Rollright Stones]. from Nuevo Atlas del Reyno de Inglaterra. Gravure, between 1645 and 1662.  

[mdfranceschi]

Illustrated coloured title page from Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, sive Atlas Novus in quo Tabulæ et Descriptiones Omnium Regionum, Editæ a Guiljel: et Ioanne Blaeu (Theater of the World, or a New Atlas of Maps and Representations of All Regions, Edited by Willem and Joan Blaeu.) Hebrew text on title page (Tetragrammaton, "Adonai", protection by God). Two female and two male figures in the sky. One laughing female figure with four breasts spouting milk, man with lyre, man seated in flames. Cartographers with pairs of compasses on globes, constellations on globes. Meridian globe. Zodiac. Two women with overflowing vat and fruits. Personifications of four world races: Asian/Jewish? with thurible, European, Indian (plumed hat, arrows and bow) and African (spear). Man with parasol riding a crocodile, woman with bow and arrows and a wolf. Camel, elephant, open book on the floor. 1645. Willem and Johannes Blaeu.

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Joan Blaeu. https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Blaeu

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[Joan Blaeu. Atlas Maior]. America. 

Quae est Geographiae Blavinae Pars Quinta, Liber Unus, Volumen Undecimum. [Amsterdam]: Labore & Sumptibus Ioannis Blaeu, [1662]. First edition. Large folio in twos

[lindahall]

Joan Blaeu – Scientist of the Day

Joan Blaeu, a Dutch cartographer, was born Sep. 23, 1596.

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[neoprusiano]

@Neoprusiano Asiæ nova descriptio (1635)

Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) Joan Blaeu (1596-1673)

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Today we’re thinking about friends, colleagues, and everyone else caught in the path of Hurricane Irma as it slams into Florida and southeastern United States after devastating northern Cuba and other Caribbean islands. One wonders if Joan Blaeu, who made our marvelous 11-volume atlas, Atlas maior, sive, Cosmographia Blaviana (1662), with its hand-colored copper engraved maps, could ever have imagined a storm of such intensity...

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VOC maps revisited

When I see the little flags on New Guinee, Java or Ceram, Dutch flags, with fortresses on spot and boatmarks on the map, I travel back to the Golden Age and see a country with power like no other. It were times the world looked like we drawed it, the best geographists and map makers of the 17th century. It were times of slavery and times of utter Dutch wealth, it were VOC times! Maps are from the “de schat van Corpus Christi” collection, a limited published edition of 750 (year 2006)

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Joan Blaeu, The Circus Maximus from the Atlas van Loon, Rome, Italy, 1663

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Joan Blaeu, Town Books (Pieter Mortier), Italy, 1704.

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Map of Rotterdam in the Netherlands by Joan Blaeu, 1649

[lindahall]

Images from Joan Blaeu’s Atlas Maior, volume 1 from 1662.

[neoprusiano]

@Neoprusiano  Nova Totius Terrarum orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula (1635)

Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) Joan Blaeu (1596-1673)

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Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, 1654 - Orkney and Shetland islands.