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Last Name Waghener

Given Name Lucas Janszoon

alt. Names L. J. W. ; Lucas Janz Aurigarius / Chartier / Wagenaar / Wagner ;

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Year born 1533 OR 1534 in Enkhuizen, Netherlands

Year died 1606

Place of death Enkhuizen, Netherlands

Father's occupation

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Education trained as a seefarer, actice as captain w. contact to Spanish, Portugese & Italian explorers, turned into cartographer

Country of Activity Netherlands

Worked for Spieghel der Zeevaerdt (Leyden 1584: w. 47 pl.) ; The mariners mirrour (1588) ; Spiegel der Seefart (Amsterdam 1589) ; Beschrijvinghe der Zee-Custen van Engelandt tußchen Wicht ende Doveren, met die principale havenen ende gedaenten des selven Landts (Leyden 1584, reprint Amsterdam 1964) ;

Patronage

Collaborators Leyden-based printer C. Plantijn ; seaman Jan Huygen van Linschoten ;

Techniques maritime and cartographical map-making and copperplate engraving ; hand-colouring ;

Sample(s) http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Janszoon_Waghenaer ;

Archival sources digital ed. of Spiegel der Seefart: http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:1-32777 ;

Published sources ADB 40 1896: 483 ; C. L. Koeman: L. J .W.-A Sixteenth Century Marine Cartographer, in: The Geographical Journal 131, 1965: 202-212 ; John Blake: Vermessung der Meere, 2007: 27 ;

other Further archival source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Janszoon_Waghenaer .

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