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de Laet, Johannes
Joannes de Laet
Joannes
or
Johannes De Laet
(Latinized as ''Ioannes Latius'') (1581 in
Antwerp
– buried 15 December 1649, in
Leiden
) was a Dutch
geographer
and director of the
Dutch West India Company
.
Philip Burden
called his ''History of the New World'', "...arguably the finest description of
the Americas
published in the seventeenth century" and "...one of the foundation maps of Canada". De Laet was the first to print maps with the names ''
Manhattan
'', ''
New Amsterdam
'' (now
New York City
) and ''
Massachusetts
''.
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