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BLAEU

Volume 4 · 42 words · 1860 Edition

or BLAUW, WILLIAM, a learned printer of Amsterdam, and a disciple and friend of Tycho Brahe. His Atlas, Treatises of the Globes, Astronomical Institutions, and other works, together with his fine impressions, have secured his name from oblivion. He died in 1638.