The 'Globus Orbis Terrae' of 1617 was the first dated printed documentation of Hudson's first voyage and the first to give the name "Nieu Nederland" to the area now known as New York, Manhattan and Long Island. However, it was also the most advanced cartographic document of the age: it was a monument and tool to be used as much as admired. Terrestrial globe Blaeu intended the globe to be a luxury item aimed at wealthy merchants and noblemen.
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What better way for a small seafaring nation with large ambitions to express its pride than to construct a symbol of its achievement in such a quintessentially representative form a three-dimensional model of the world that would fill a room with its mass a magnificent statement of what the Dutch had achieved and were achieving with every new fact and update added by Blaeu over the course of the Globe's transformation, through four states from 1617 to 1645/48?' (van der Krogt). Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French explorers had contributed the lion's share of what was known, but during Blaeu's generation the Dutch themselves had taken up the mantle as masters of the sea and changed the face of the world with their voyages of discovery. During the preceding century, more than half of the known world, including the entire western hemisphere, had been charted and, more recently, during Blaeu's own time, large portions of the Pacific were being explored. "These globes were not merely the largest globes ever made in Amsterdam, and even the world's largest up to that time, and virtually until the end of the seventeenth century, they were also representations of enormous human achievement - an extraordinary record of an extraordinary period of geographical discovery. Their size and grandeur stand testimony to the confidence and wealth of a great maritime and trading nation at the height of its powers. Willem Janszoon Blaeu's 26-inch globes are the apotheosis of Dutch Golden Age cartography. With minor nicks and scratches to several parts of the printed surface, as is inevitable for a globe of this scale and period.
The apotheosis of the Golden Age of Dutch cartography Terrestrial and celestial globes, the terrestrial globe with 36 hand-coloured engraved half gores, with two polar calottes, the celestial globe with 24 hand-coloured engraved half gores, with two polar calottes, rotating on brass pinions within a brass meridian ring with graduated scale, each set into a seventeenth century Dutch wooden base with ebonised baluster supports, bun feet and central column, with marble staining and gilding with an engraved horizon ring, adumbrating scales, calendar, almanacs etc.