During a recent visit to the Dutch National Maritime Museum I came across the world map from 1648 AD by cartographer Joan Blaeu. In addition to being the first world map of the Earth that adhered to the Copernican worldview, Blaeu’s map is an extremely detailed document of the knowledge of the world at the time sourced solely from the information gathered by explorers from their travels through ages to the far reaches of the world. It’s inaccuracies and subjectivity to the western view of the world are quite amusing, but there is still a level of high detail and surprising accuracy. Through these details, it is clear that cartographers must meticulously piece together information from a large number of sources of varying reliability. Creating maps of exoplanets, also beginning to be known as Exocartography, is an equally challenging observational and mathematical problem which is addressed by today’s paper.
Translation: Durante una reciente visita al Museo Nacional de la Marina de los Países Bajos encontré la carta del mundo de 1648 AD del cartógrafo Joan Blaeu. Además de ser la primera carta del mundo de la Tierra que se adaptó a la visión copernicana, la carta de Blaeu es un documento extremadamente detallado de la conocimiento del mundo en ese
Translation: During a recent visit to the National Maritime Museum of the Netherlands, I found the world map of 1648 AD by cartographer Joan Blaeu. In addition to being the first world map of the Earth to be adapted to the Copernican view, Blaeu's map is an extremely detailed document of the world's knowledge at that time.


Translation: Durante una reciente visita al Museo Nacional de la Marina de los Países Bajos encontré la carta del mundo de 1648 AD del cartógrafo Joan Blaeu. Además de ser la primera carta del mundo de la Tierra que se adaptó a la visión copernicana, la carta de Blaeu es un documento extremadamente detallado de la conocimiento del mundo en ese
 momento.

Translation: During a recent visit to the National Maritime Museum of the Netherlands, I found the world map of 1648 AD by cartographer Joan Blaeu. In addition to being the first world map of the Earth to be adapted to the Copernican view, Blaeu's map is an extremely detailed document of the world's knowledge at that time.