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Maarten Gerritszoon Vries or Fries, also
referred to as de Vries, (18
February 1589 in Harlingen,
Netherlands – late 1647 at sea near Manila) was a 17th-century...
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Claes Gerritszoon Compaen (1587, Oostzaan,
North Holland - 25
February 1660, Oostzaan), also
called Claas Compaan or
Klaas Kompaan, was a 17th-century...
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Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (/ˌdɛzɪˈdɪəriəs ɪˈræzməs/; Dutch: [ˌdeːziˈdeːriʏs eˈrɑsmʏs]; English:
Erasmus of
Rotterdam or Erasmus; 28
October c.1466...
- most
famous of a
family of painters, the
pupil of his father,
Jacob Gerritszoon Cuyp (1594–1651/52), he is
especially known for his
large views of Dutch...
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Hessel Gerritsz (c. 1581 –
buried 4
September 1632) was a
Dutch engraver, cartographer, and publisher. He was one of the
notable figures in the Golden...
- had a
better fate. It was
still in
existence in
Amsterdam when
Hessel Gerritszoon made his map of the
Pacific in 1622, and
placed the
Duyfken geography...
- Republic, now the Netherlands. He was the
ninth child born to
Harmen Gerritszoon van Rijn and
Neeltgen Willemsdochter van Zuijtbrouck. His
family was...
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Jacob Gerritszoon Cuyp or
Cuijp (1594–1652) was a
portrait and
landscape painter, best
known for his portraits. He was born and died in Dordrecht, the...
- real name, but
historians have
found he was
probably born as
Gerrit Gerritszoon and that he and his
parents moved to Dutch-controlled Brazil. He is known...
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Staten Island, a
large phantom island placed north of ****an by
Maarten Gerritszoon Vries now
believed to be a
garbled account of Iturup, one of the Kurils...
