Astronomer; Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World, The Life and Scholarly Achievements of Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) in Colonial Dutch Brazil. Volume 2: Transcription and English Translation of His Astronomical Observations

Year

2022

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-9-46372-228-5

Link

Last Update

10-Feb-2026

Keywords

History ; Latin American Studies ; History of Science & Technology

Description

Georg Marggrafe made important scholarly contributions to three scholarly fields: cartography, natural history and astronomy. However, his death, in 1643, prevented him from personally finalizing and publishing his results. That’s why his written legacy was split into three parts at the time. Marggrafe’s maps were given to the cartographic publisher Johannes Blaeu, who published these maps as four careful engravings in Caspar Barlaeus’s Rerum per octennium in Brasilia (1647) and combined them into a large wall map the same year. About the two other fields, natural history and astronomy, Marggrafe’s personal Maecenas, Johan Maurits von Nassau-Siegen, the former governor of...