Willem Janszoon Blaeu or Willem Blaeu, Dutch cartographer not to be confused with Willem Janszoon, a contemporary Dutch explorer
He had two sons, Johannes and Cornelis Blaeu, who continued their father's mapmaking and publishing business after his death in 1638.
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Evidently, Vermeer was particularly attached to a Willem Blaeu - Balthasar Florisz van Berckenrode map of Holland and West Friesland, as he represented it as a wall decoration in three of his paintings...
Willem de Kooning | Willem Dafoe | Willem Blaeu | Willem Janszoon | Willem Mengelberg | Joan Blaeu | Willem Roggeman | Herman Willem Daendels | Blaeu | Willem Drees | Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands | Willem van Otterloo | Willem Schouten | Willem Kloos | Willem Klein | Willem II (football club) | Willem II | Willem de Vlamingh | Willem Buiter | John Willem Gran | Willem Verstegen | Willem van Hoogstraten | Willem van Enckevoirt | Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen | Willem Sassen | Willem P.C. Stemmer | Willem Frederik Hermans | Willem C. Vis Moot | Willem B. Drees | Willem Abraham Wythoff |
It also holds a collection of reports of European travelers in Brazil, ranging from 16th to 19th century, including works by André Thévet, Arnoldus Montanus, Robert Southey, Willem Blaeu, Maria Graham, von Spix, von Martius, etc.
Brahe's expanded list had circulated in manuscript since 1598 and was available in graphic form on the celestial globes of Petrus Plancius, Hondius, and Willem Blaeu.