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Jacques Roelofs van Deventer and his work - On RTBF radio-station

On 20 January 2018, on the channel La Une of the RTBF television-station, the public broadcasting organization of the French Community of Belgium, our friend Colin Dupont, from the Royal Library of Belgium, introduced a short film about Jacob Roelofs van Deventer, a cartographer born in 1500/1505 in Kampen and deceased in 1575 in Cologne.
In the course of fifteen years, he created between 250 and 260 city maps, covering an area from Friesland to what is today the north of France, and reaching into Luxembourg and the west of Germany.
The link to the film is: https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_l-envers-du-tresor-atlas-de-jacques-de-deventer?id=2301050
Read more in Maps in History No 60
(Sources : RTBF and Wikipedia)

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