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Willem Blaeu: Deutsch: Frontispiz aus dem Segelhandbuch „Licht der Zeevaert“English: Book frontispiece of the sailing handbook "The light of navigation"   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Willem Blaeu  (1571–1638)  wikidata:Q520327
 
Willem Blaeu
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Willem Janszoon Blaeu, Willem Jansz Blaeu, Guilielmus Janssonius, Willems Jans Zoon, Guilielmus or G. Blaeu
Description Dutch cartographer, publisher, instrument maker, astronomer and printmaker
Date of birth/death 1571 Edit this at Wikidata 18 October 1638 / 1638 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Uitgeest Amsterdam
Work period 1610 Edit this at Wikidata
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Amsterdam (1599–1638); Amsterdam Edit this at Wikidata
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Deutsch: Frontispiz aus dem Segelhandbuch „Licht der Zeevaert“
English: Book frontispiece of the sailing handbook "The light of navigation"
Date 1608
date QS:P571,+1608-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Kupferstich
Universitätsbibliothek
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Marburg
Notes de: "Das Blatt stellt die Wissenschaften dar, welche die Seefahrt ermöglichen: In der Mitte unter dem Licht der Erkenntnis ein Lehrer, der auf Globen und Karten zeigt. Auf der linken Seite der Meeresgott Neptun, rechts Äolus, Gott der Winde." [1] "Segelandbuch mit folgenden Navigationsinstrumenten auf dem Frontispiz: Kompaß, Sanduhr, See-Astrolab, Erd- und Himmelsgloben, Zirkel, Jakobsstab und Astrolab", Gudrun Wolfschmidt: Sterne weisen den Weg- Geschichte der Navigation, BoD – Books on Demand, 2009, Abb10.2, S.325, ISBN 3837039692, 9783837039696 Google Books
en: "The picture shows the sciences which make seafaring possible: In the middle, under the light of knowledge, a teacher points at globes and maps. On the left side, Neptune, the god of water and the sea, on the right Aeolus, the ruler of the winds", "Sailing handbook, showing the following navigational equipment on the book frontispiece: compass, hourglass, mariner's astrolabe, terrestrial and celestial globes, divider, Jacob's staff and astrolabe."
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