Gordon made other maps, and revised many others, adding geographical descriptions, and prefixing an introduction in Blaeu, in which a comprehensive view is given of the constitution and antiquities of the country.

* Willem and Joan Blaeu publish the first edition of their Atlas Novus in Amsterdam.

A detailed map of the principality in the first half of the 17th century reproduced from the famous 1627 Atlas of Willem Janszoon Blaeu.

Osiander's Italian pal, Dr. Cardano, who cures the asthmatic Archbishop John Hamilton, executed for helping Mary, Queen of Scots, whose lover, the explosive bearing Earl of Bothwell, ends up in Scandinavia with a friend of astronomer Tycho Brahe, whose assistant, Willem Blaeu, makes maps updated in the first true atlas by the Englishman Dudley, working in Italy for Bernardo Buontalenti, who got opera started, which was a rave success, especially with the French Cardinal Mazarin, whose library inspired the secretary of the English navy, which eventually buys French semaphore, after which Gamble gets the patent for canned food that feeds explorers like Hooker, who transplanted rubber trees to Sri Lanka.

It was first observed on 18 August ( Gregorian ) 1600 by Willem Janszoon Blaeu, a Dutch astronomer, mathematician and globe-maker.

), Aestui, Venedi, Goths | Gythones and Ingaevones on the right upper corner of the map Edited by Willem and Joan Blaeu ), 1645.

Many of the features in Willem Blaeu | Blaeu's 1652 map of Utrecht can still be recognised in the city center

1649 map of Zutphen in Willem Blaeu | Willem and Joan Blaeu's " Toonneel der Steden "

A 1630 map by Willem Blaeu of the German Empire shows the city name Dirschau, as well as Kirchenbuecher starting in 1637 of the mostly Protestant city.

Sneek on the map of Willem Blaeu | Willem and Joan Blaeu in 1652

1649 map of Zaltbommel in Willem Blaeu | Willem and Joan Blaeu's " Toonneel der Steden "

1649 map of IJsselstein in Willem Blaeu | Willem and Joan Blaeu's " Toonneel der Steden "

In 1968, however, extensive restoration works started, and fortifications were carefully rebuilt, based on and inspired by a 1649 map of the city of Heusden by Johannes Blaeu, son of the famous Dutch cartographer Willem Blaeu.

* Antique map ( 1649 ) of Heusden by J. Blaeu

File: Blaeu 1652-Enkhuizen. jpg | Historic map of Enkhuizen

1659 map prepared by Joan Blaeu based on voyages by Abel Tasman and Willem Jansz.

Willem Blaeu | Blaeu's 1654 map of Orkney and Shetland.

Willem Blaeu | Blaeu's 1654 map of Orkney and Shetland

Some early maps by Willem Blaeu, such as his 1617 map of Europe, omit it, but it reappears on his 1630 world map as one of many islands shown off the eastern coast of Labrador which was then believed to extend to within a few hundred miles of Scotland.

Among its last appearances is in a 1652 world map by Visscher, largely copied from that of Blaeu.

* World map by Willem Blaeu ( high resolution zoomable scan )

1649 map of IJzendijke in Willem Blaeu | Willem and Joan Blaeu's " Toonneel der Steden "

Image: Vollenhove Kaart Blaeu. jpg | Historical map (+- 1649 )

1649 map of Zwartsluis in Willem Blaeu | Willem and Joan Blaeu's " Toonneel der Steden "

Germaniae veteris typus ( historic map of the Old Germany ), Aestui and Venedi on the right upper corner of the map ( edited by Willem and Joan Blaeu, 1645 ).

The island Cádiz by Blaeu in 1662.

Timothy Pont's map of 1604-1608 published in 1654 by Joan Blaeu, marks Lady Isle by that name and indicates that a structure is present on the island, presumably the chapel.

The dialogue was reissued at Leiden in 1637 by the Scots writer David Echlin, whose poems, with a selection of three poems from the dialogue of Volusenus, appear, with others, in the famous Amsterdam collection Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum hujus and printed by Johannes Blaeu in 2 vols.

File: Blaeu. jpg | The North-East Europe in an atlas published by Willem Blaeu.

Blaeu, was a Dutch cartographer, atlas maker and publisher.

Image: Blaeu 1645-Walachia Servia Bulgaria Romania. jpg | Map from 1645, in which name Rascia is located in Banat

Both Willem Jansson Blaeu and Cellarius depicted Cetus as a whale-like creature in the same century.

Blaeu, who lived in Amsterdam, named it " Jan Mayen " after captain Jan Jacobszoon May of the Amsterdam-financed Gouden Cath.

Willem Blaeu | Blaeu's 1654 Atlas of Scotland-The Small Isles.

** Willem Blaeu, Dutch cartographer ( d. 1638 )

* Joan Blaeu completes publication of his Atlas Maior ( Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ) in Amsterdam.

Image: Blaeu 1652-Kampen. jpg | Kampen ( Blaeu's Toonneel der Steden Dutch city maps, by Willem and Joan Blaeu, 1652.

Image: Blaeu 1652-Harderwijk. jpg | Map Harderwijk ( Blaeu's Toonneel der Steden, by Willem and Joan Blaeu, 1652.

File: Johannes Blaeu KasteelTeMedemblik. JPG | Medemblik Castle on a drawing by Johannes Blaeu

It belongs to the early group of plates printed by William Blaeu from 1630 onwards.

From the 1630s, the Blaeu family issued their work under a similar title, Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive, Atlas Novus.