The Dutch school
Essays on mapmaking in the Low Countries, from the first printed sea atlas to the great publishing houses of Amsterdam.
- Jacob van Deventer's town plans
A survey ordered by Philip II produced more than two hundred plans of the towns of the Low Countries.
- How Hondius bought Mercator's plates
After Mercator's death his copperplates were sold to an Amsterdam engraver, who turned the atlas into a lasting brand.
- Linschoten's Itinerario
A Dutchman copied Portuguese sailing directions in Goa and published them, and Dutch ships soon followed his route.
- Waghenaer's Mirror of the Sea
In 1584 a pilot from Enkhuizen published the first printed atlas of sea charts, and English sailors named the genre after him.