Dvcatvs Silesiae Ligniciensis: Blaeu 1662

Title: Dvcatvs Silesiae Ligniciensis Author: House of Blaeu Date: 1662 Medium: Hand-Colored Copperplate Engraving Condition: Very Good, page fold visible Inches: 22 x 17.5 [Image] Centimeters: 55.9 x 44.5 [Image] Product ID: 233014 Dvcatvs Silesiae Ligniciensis Auctore Iona Sculteto Sprotta Silesio Map of the region of Silesia in modern-day Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic. Dutch cartographer Willem Blaeu (1571-1638), and later his heirs, dominated the world cartographic landscape for much of the seventeenth century. Blaeu studied under Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, one of the major figures in the history of modern astronomy. After returning to the Low Countries from Denmark in the late 1590s, Blaeu set up shop as a cartographer and globe maker. He produced numerous atlases, and in 1633 became the official mapmaker of the Dutch East India Company, the megacorporation which, thanks to Dutch naval prowess, controlled the seventeenth-century global economy. Num