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The Dutch School of Cartography: How a Small Country Mapped the World

7 min•10 juni 2026

In Episode 88 of The Story of the Netherlands, Lucas and Luna explore the Dutch Golden Age of cartography—how a small, newly independent republic became the world's leading mapmaker. They trace the rise of the Blaeu family, whose magnificent atlases were symbols of wealth and power, the innovative engraving techniques that made Dutch maps both beautiful and accurate, and the role of the VOC in demanding precise charts for global navigation. They discuss the Mercator projection, the secret atlas of the VOC, and the tragic decline of the Blaeu workshop in the 1670s. Along the way, they touch on the commercial rivalry with the Hondius and Janssonius firms, the censorship of maritime knowledge, and the legacy of the first true world atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. This episode reveals how cartography was as much a weapon of empire as fluyts and cannons.

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