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  • Activity of Dutches
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    •   Dutches behind the seas. Cartographical products

    you are: Dutches behind the seas

    In XVII century in the Netherlands the largest cartographical products which have generalised the first results of Great geographical opening have been created. The best cards on those times and globes, and hardly later - atlases (quite often strictly coded) were printed in Amsterdam and Leiden.

    Many of the remained cartographical products of that period occupy nowadays places of honour in the largest libraries and world museums as the most valuable relics. Together with the escaped diaries Dutch morehodov they give food for researches to modern geographers, and to historians help to recreate an epoch picture.

    Such bright stage in development of a geographical science - the phenomenon for the Netherlands not casual. In it the growing objective requirement for more exact and deep geographical knowledge was reflected. Certainly, the certain sum of geographical data and the facts by then has already collected, but they yet did not give a full picture of the world. Reduction of all this sum of data in strict system on the basis of scientific generalisation Was required. And Dutches very much required it, after all the country has entered the blossoming period, promptly having rushed in economic and a policy and having won though and for a short while, in the lead position in the world. The young bourgeoisie of "the exemplary capitalist countryÂ" clearly realised, that without science development, and in particular geography, to reach leaderships in world affairs - especially in trade and a gain of colonies - it will be difficult.

    The Epoch of Great geographical opening has been begun, and begun not by Dutches, but in the world there were more enough Â"white stainsÂ". With all energy inherent in Dutches and a business grasp they undertook to "erase" these "stains" from a map. Their powerful fleet, the most numerous in Europe, opened open space for activity, and growing requirements pushed bourgeoisie on searches of new sources of enrichment. Mediterranean sea, Â"mother of commerceÂ", was already close for Dutches, Northern and Baltic also did not satisfy appetites of the Netherlands dealers.