Joan Blaeu
Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu (1596 – 1673), son of cartographer Willem Blaeu, qualified as a doctor of law before joining his father's studio. Together, father and son published the two-volume atlas Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive, Atlas novus in 1635. After their father's death, Joan and his brother took over the studio. A copy of his world map, Nova et Accuratissima Terrarum Orbis Tabula (1648), incorporating Abel Tasman's discoveries and Nicolaus Copernicus' heliocentric astronomy, was set into the pavement of the new Amsterdam Town Hall in 1655.
