Rare Book Spotlight: Joan Blaeu’s Grooten Atlas

Join Alison Reynolds, Research Services and Instruction Archivist at the Georgia Tech Library; Jim Sowell, Astronomer and Observatory Director at Georgia Tech School of Physics; and Nick Wilding, Professor and Associate Chair of History at Georgia State University, for a virtual exploration and conversation about the Dutch edition of Joan Blaeu’s Grooten Atlas, which was published in Amsterdam between 1662-1665.

They will provide a virtual look at several illustrations from this nine-volume set, which contains more than 3,000 pages and 600 hand-colored maps of the world.