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   Langren
   Michael Florent/ Floris van
   M. F. v. L. ; Michiel Florent van Langren / Michel Floris Langrenus ;
   
   
   1598 or 1600 c. in Amsterdam
   1675
   Brussels, now Belgium
   cartographer and globe maker ->Arnold Floris van Langren (c. 1571-1644), with whom me emigrated from Amsterdam to Antwerpen in 1609
   globemaker ->Jacob Floris van Langren (1xxx-1610) (grandfather): see Johannes Keuning: The Van Langren Family, in: Imago Mundi 13 (1956): 101-9 ;
   
   Belgium
   M. L.: Plenilunii Lumina Austriaca Philippica (1645, kept in Edinburgh, Crawford Library) ;
   Cosmographus & Mathematicus van Syne Koninglyke Majesteyt (of the Spanish governor of Netherlands: Isabella Clara Eugenia & Belgian King Philipp IV)
   with his father on various globes and maps ;
   astronomical and geographical drawing and copperplate engraving ; terrestrial & lunar cartography ; the first statistical graph 1628-1644 ;
   http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_van_Langren#mediaviewer/File:Siege_of_Gravelines_%28Grevelingen%29_in_1644_%28Atlas_van_Loon%29.jpg ;
   http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/galileopalazzostrozzi/object/MichelFlorentVanLangrenPleniluniiLuminaAustriacaPhilippica.html ;
   Peter van der Krogt: Globi Neerlandici-Production of Globes in the Netherlands (Utrecht, 1993) ; # 3.2 Jacob Floris van Langren & his sons, & #7.3 Arnold Floris van Langren & his son Michael in Brussels; Michael Friendly et al. in American Statistician 2010: www.datavis.ca/papers/langren-TAS09154.pdf ;
   Dutch engineer, cartografer, and astronomer, who made his own illustrations; on his vita cf. http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_van_Langren. cf. also https://lh5.ggpht.com/_lNZvwK7Z6Ks/TVPouPktrKI/AAAAAAAANzA/rzWQLFFvyXI/1645_langren_thumb[2].jpg?imgmax=800
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