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Johann Blaeu
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(1596–1673)
Johann Blaeu (also known as Johan, Joan or Johannes Blaeu) was the son of Willem Janszoon Blaeu, who founded a business in Amsterdam in 1599 as a globe and instrument maker. He also published maps, topographical works and books of sea charts. Willem trained his two sons, Johan (1596-1673) and Cornelis (d. 1642) in cartography, and they assisted him and continued the business after his death. Willem Blaeu also planned a major atlas of maps of the whole of the known world, but this project progressed slowly until he bought between 30 and 40 plates of the Mercator Atlas from Jodocus Hondius II to add to his own collection. In 1630, he published a 60 map volume with the title Atlantis Appendix. Five years later, the first two volumes of his planned world atlas, Atlas Novus or the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, were published. After Willem died in Amsterdam on October 21, 1638, Johann completed the series of 6 volumes about 1655. Johan also prepared the Atlas Major, which he published in 1662 in 11 volumes (later editions in 9-12 volumes), and which contained nearly 600 double-page maps and 3,000 pages of text.