A look into the book

Joan Blaeu had a perfect right to be self-confident. He headed his family’s extremely successful cartography business in Amsterdam. And he also printed books such as Thomas Hobbes’ philosophical work. Joan Blaeu in a painting by J. van Rossum, 1654/72.

Even the motto reveals what Blaeu expected from himself: to work his fingers to the bone just like Heracles and to achieve new records, ‘indefessus agendo’.

In his works, Thomas Hobbes proposed a method for explaining the entire world. Due to his modern, mechanical approach he made himself many enemies. In Amsterdam, however, the famous Dutchman Joan Blaeu published the complete edition of Hobbes’ philosophical work in an exemplary manner.

In his works, Thomas Hobbes proposed a method for explaining the entire world. Due to his modern, mechanical approach he made himself many enemies. In Amsterdam, however, the famous Dutchman Joan Blaeu published the complete edition of Hobbes’ philosophical work in an exemplary manner.

In his works, Thomas Hobbes proposed a method for explaining the entire world. Due to his modern, mechanical approach he made himself many enemies. In Amsterdam, however, the famous Dutchman Joan Blaeu published the complete edition of Hobbes’ philosophical work in an exemplary manner.

In his works, Thomas Hobbes proposed a method for explaining the entire world. Due to his modern, mechanical approach he made himself many enemies. In Amsterdam, however, the famous Dutchman Joan Blaeu published the complete edition of Hobbes’ philosophical work in an exemplary manner.

In his works, Thomas Hobbes proposed a method for explaining the entire world. Due to his modern, mechanical approach he made himself many enemies. In Amsterdam, however, the famous Dutchman Joan Blaeu published the complete edition of Hobbes’ philosophical work in an exemplary manner.

In his works, Thomas Hobbes proposed a method for explaining the entire world. Due to his modern, mechanical approach he made himself many enemies. In Amsterdam, however, the famous Dutchman Joan Blaeu published the complete edition of Hobbes’ philosophical work in an exemplary manner.

In his works, Thomas Hobbes proposed a method for explaining the entire world. Due to his modern, mechanical approach he made himself many enemies. In Amsterdam, however, the famous Dutchman Joan Blaeu published the complete edition of Hobbes’ philosophical work in an exemplary manner.

In his works, Thomas Hobbes proposed a method for explaining the entire world. Due to his modern, mechanical approach he made himself many enemies. In Amsterdam, however, the famous Dutchman Joan Blaeu published the complete edition of Hobbes’ philosophical work in an exemplary manner.

In his works, Thomas Hobbes proposed a method for explaining the entire world. Due to his modern, mechanical approach he made himself many enemies. In Amsterdam, however, the famous Dutchman Joan Blaeu published the complete edition of Hobbes’ philosophical work in an exemplary manner.

In his works, Thomas Hobbes proposed a method for explaining the entire world. Due to his modern, mechanical approach he made himself many enemies. In Amsterdam, however, the famous Dutchman Joan Blaeu published the complete edition of Hobbes’ philosophical work in an exemplary manner.

In his works, Thomas Hobbes proposed a method for explaining the entire world. Due to his modern, mechanical approach he made himself many enemies. In Amsterdam, however, the famous Dutchman Joan Blaeu published the complete edition of Hobbes’ philosophical work in an exemplary manner.

In his works, Thomas Hobbes proposed a method for explaining the entire world. Due to his modern, mechanical approach he made himself many enemies. In Amsterdam, however, the famous Dutchman Joan Blaeu published the complete edition of Hobbes’ philosophical work in an exemplary manner.

In his works, Thomas Hobbes proposed a method for explaining the entire world. Due to his modern, mechanical approach he made himself many enemies. In Amsterdam, however, the famous Dutchman Joan Blaeu published the complete edition of Hobbes’ philosophical work in an exemplary manner.

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