Terrestrial and Celestial Globes - Their History and Construction, Including a Consideration of Their, Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy #244946

Jodocus Hondius (1567-1611) was a native of Wacken (fig. 6o).1 To this village his parents, shortly before his birth, had fled from Ghent to escape the persecuting hand of Count Egmont. The father, Oliver de Hondt, a modest teacher but a man very learned in theology, had embraced the reformed faith and therefore became an outlaw by decree of the government. On the arrest of Egrnont, he with his family returned to Ghent, to remain but a short time, for in the year 1569 we find a residence had been taken up at Duffel near Antwerp. In this city two children were born, a daughter whose name is now unknown and a son Henry, usually referred to as Henry the Elder.