Atlas Maior
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The Atlas Maior (or Atlas Novus, as earlier editions were called) is a comprehensive world atlas, conceived by Willem Blaeu but compiled by his son Joan Blaeu, and completed in 1665. The original work consisted of eleven volumes, in Latin, containing 594 maps.
The full title Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, sive, Atlas novus refers to the earlier Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Ortelius, in 1570.
A modern reproduction, containing nearly eight hundred pages and weighing 7.0 kilograms is published by Taschen. The replica was created from the copy currently housed in the Austrian National Library at Vienna.
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- The Regional Archives of Leiden offers a complete digital version of their Atlas Novus
- Bedeutender Atlas als Teilfaksimile neu erschienen
- The National Library of Scotland's PONT PROJECT. This is dedicated to the 17th century Scottish cartographer Timothy Pont whose work was published in Blaeu's Atlas.
