Celestial globe after 1621 Willem Jansz Blaeu Amsterdam's printers and engravers contributed materially to the brilliance of Dutch achievement in the seventeenth century. One of the most prominent among them was the cartographer and globe publisher Willem Jansz Blaeu. Blaeu, born Willem Jansz, or Janszoon, in Alkmaar, opened a shop in Amsterdam about 1598, after having studied briefly with the great Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601). Blaeu's first celestial globe appeared almost immediately. The stars on it were based on Brahe's star catalogue, but the prototypes for the beautifully engraved constellation figures have never been identified. The globe was soon superseded, however, by one published by Blaeu's chief competitor, Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612), showing the newly discovered constellations of the southern hemisphere. In 1603 Blaeu issued a corrected edition of his celestial globe, which he sold with his terrestrial globe of 1599. The globes, consisting of engraved paper

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Celestial globe after 1621 Willem Jansz Blaeu Amsterdam's printers and engravers contributed materially to the brilliance of Dutch achievement in the seventeenth century. One of the most prominent among them was the cartographer and globe publisher Willem Jansz Blaeu. Blaeu, born Willem Jansz, or Janszoon, in Alkmaar, opened a shop in Amsterdam about 1598, after having studied briefly with the great Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601). Blaeu's first celestial globe appeared almost immediately. The stars on it were based on Brahe's star catalogue, but the prototypes for the beautifully engraved constellation figures have never been identified. The globe was soon superseded, however, by one published by Blaeu's chief competitor, Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612), showing the newly discovered constellations of the southern hemisphere. In 1603 Blaeu issued a corrected edition of his celestial globe, which he sold with his terrestrial globe of 1599. The globes, consisting of engraved paper

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