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Dr. Benjamin Weiss

About Dr. Benjamin Weiss

Benjamin Weiss is Leonard A. Lauder Senior Curator of Visual Culture Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

A model of the United East India Company ship (East Indiaman), "Valkenisse," 1717 (The Netherlands), wood with hemp, cotton rigging, 228.6 x 96.5 x 203.2 cm (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) — From Asia to the Netherlands, the Dutch East India Company dominated maritime trade in the 17th and 18th centuries

Model of the Dutch East India Company ...

by Dr. Benjamin Weiss and Dr. Steven Zucker

Joan Blaeu, Atlas Maior Sive Cosmographia Blaviana, Qua Solvm, Salvm, Coelvm, Accvratissime Describvntvr. (Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1665), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston — A very expensive Atlas from Amsterdam attempts to map the known world to Dutch viewers

The Great Atlas, Dutch edition

by Dr. Benjamin Weiss and Dr. Steven Zucker