1. Pieter Goos was a Dutch cartographer, copperplate engraver, publisher and bookseller.
11 Facts About Pieter Goos
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Pieter Goos was the son of Abraham Goos, a cartographer and map seller.
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From 1666, Pieter Goos published a number of well produced atlases.
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Pieter Goos was the first to map Christmas Island, which he labelled "Mony" in his map of the East Indies, published in his 1666 Zee-Atlas.
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Pieter Goos's father, Abraham, was an established cartographer having published globes as well as land and sea maps at Antwerp.
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Pieter Goos followed in his footsteps, first creating pilot books and then moving into global sea atlases to assist navigation.
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Pieter Goos operated from Amsterdam, which was the focal point of cartography and trade during the seventeenth century.
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Pieter Goos had a notarized agreement with two others, Jacob Lootsman and Hendrick Doncker, to publish pilot books for navigation along the Mediterranean coast, covering easterly and westerly navigational routes.
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Pieter Goos was instrumental in publishing the first pilot book for coastlines outside Europe.
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Pieter Goos published regional maps covering the coastal areas of all the continents, facilitating navigation by including details of sandbars, sea depths and the islands near the coast.
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At least one of Pieter Goos' atlases was published by his widow.