Year
2022
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Language
English
Pages
11
ISBN
978-9-46372-228-5
Last Update
03-Sep-2024
Keywords
History ; Latin American Studies ; History of Science & Technology
Georg Marggrafe made important scholarly contributions to three scholarly fields: cartography, natural history and astronomy. However, his death, in 1643, prevented him from personally finalizing and publishing his results. That’s why his written legacy was split into three parts at the time. Marggrafe’s maps were given to the cartographic publisher Johannes Blaeu, who published these maps as four careful engravings in Caspar Barlaeus’s Rerum per octennium in Brasilia (1647) and combined them into a large wall map the same year. About the two other fields, natural history and astronomy, Marggrafe’s personal Maecenas, Johan Maurits von Nassau-Siegen, the former governor of...
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