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Original maps are rare collector items. Blaeu's 1630 map of Europe Blaeu's 1614 map of the Americas. Blaeu's maps were featured in the works of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer of Delft (1632–1675), who holds a position of great honor among map historians. Several of his paintings illustrate maps hanging on walls or globes standing on ...
Joan Blaeu explains in the preface that the maps of Scotland depended on the work of Pont and that John Scot had been instrumental in transferring those maps ("but much torn and deformed") to Amsterdam. Blaeu organized the maps, and "finishing touches" (corrections and some descriptions) were applied by Robert and James Gordon.
Although Copernicus's groundbreaking book On the Revolutions of the Spheres had been first printed in 1543, just over a century earlier, Blaeu was the first mapmaker to incorporate this revolutionary heliocentric theory into a map of the world." [3] Blaeu's map was copied for the map of the world set into the pavement of the Groote Burger-Zaal ...
A 17th-century world map by Joan Blaeu, like his “Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula,” can command prices that soar into the thousands. More recently, a World Ortelius map sold for £4,000 ...
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. [1]
Blaeu's world map, first published in the 1664 volume of the Atlas van Loon, later reprinted. The Atlas van Loon was commissioned by Frederik Willem van Loon of Amsterdam. It consists of a large number of maps published between 1649 and 1676: [1] Volumes I to IX: The Dutch edition of Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior (Grooten Atlas) of 1663-1665
In 1649, the map was re-engraved by Blaeu's son Joan – it was shrunk to 44 cm × 52 cm (17 in × 20 in) [9] and oriented west instead of north so that it could fit on an atlas page. [19] In 1660, the original map was included in the Klencke Atlas. The map was also included in a counterfeit German atlas published c. 1670. [23]
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States.
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