Joannes De Laet
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| Gender | Male |
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| Born | Antwerp |
| Belgium | |
| Date of died | December 15,1649 |
| Died | The Hague |
| Netherlands | |
| Books | The Empire of the Great Mogol |
| Education | Leiden University |
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| ID | 2892682 |
Joannes De Laet Life story
Joannes or Johannes De Laet was a Dutch geographer and director of the Dutch West India Company. Philip Burden called his History of the New World, ". . . arguably the finest description of the Americas published in the seventeenth century" and ". . . one of the foundation maps of Canada".
