This map of the group of islands the Azores was in 1662 included in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Maior" class="extiw" title="en:Atlas Maior">Atlas Maior</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Blaeu" class="extiw" title="en:Joan Blaeu">Joan Blaeu</a> (1598-1673). The author of the map was the Portugese cartographer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%C3%ADs_Teixeira" class="extiw" title="en:Luís Teixeira">Luís Teixeira</a>. His map was published in 1584 in the atlas <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatrum_Orbis_Terrarum" class="extiw" title="en:Theatrum Orbis Terrarum">Theatrum Orbis Terrarum</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Ortelius" class="extiw" title="en:Abraham Ortelius">Abraham Ortelius</a> (1527-1598). Blaeus map is a copy of Ortelius map.
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