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» not to be confused with Willem Janszoon (1570 - 1630), contemporary Dutch navigator and colonial governor
Willem Janszoon Blaeu (
1571,
Uitgeest or
Alkmaar –
Oct 21 1638,
Amsterdam), also abbreviated to
Willem Jansz. Blaeu, was a
Dutch cartographer,
atlas maker and publisher.
As the son of a well-to-do
herring salesman, he was predestined to succeed his father in the trade, but his interests lay more in
Mathematics and
Astronomy.
Between
1594 and
1596 as a student of the
Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe he qualified as an instrument and
globe maker.
Once he returned to the
Netherlands, he made country maps and world globes, and as he possessed his own printing works, he was able to regularly produce country maps in an atlas format, some of which appeared in the
Atlas Novus published in
1635. In
1633 he was appointed map-maker of the
Dutch East India Company.
He was also an editor and published the works of
Willebrord Snell,
Metius,
Gerhard Johann Vossius and the historian and poet
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft.
He had two sons,
Johannes and Cornelis
Blaeu, who continued their father's mapmaking and publishing business after his death in
1638. Prints of the family's works are still sold today. Original maps are rare collector items.
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