Discoverers, Navigators and Cartographers Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) Abraham Ortels was a Flemish cartographer and geographer, generally recognised as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World). Ortelius was the first to underline the geometrical coincidence between the coasts of America and Europe-Africa, and to propose continental drift as an explanation. 1527 Abraham Ortelius was born as Abraham Ortels in Antwerp, Flanders (Belgium), on 4th of April 1527. Some time before he was born, his family moved from Augsburg to Antwerp, which was then in the Habsburg ruled Seventeen Provinces and the economic and cultural centre of the Low Countries. The death of his father in 1535, who had been a wealthy merchant, seems to have placed the family in difficulties, for Ortelius began to trade or peddle geographical charts and maps while still a mere youth. 1547 In 1547, at the age of twenty, he joined a guild as a colourer of charts.

He supplemented his income trading in books, prints, and maps, and his journeys included yearly visits to the Frankfurt book and print fair where he met Gerardus Mercator in 1554. In 1560, however, when travelling with Mercator to Trier, Lorraine, and Poitiers, he seems to have been attracted, largely by Mercator's influence, towards the career of a scientific geographer. In 1564 he published his first map, Typus Orbis Terrarum, an eight-leaved map of the world. He also published a two-sheet map of Egypt in 1565, a plan of the Brittenburg castle on the coast of the Netherlands in 1568, an eight-sheet map of Asia in 1567, and a six-sheet map of Spain before the appearance of his atlas. 1570 On May 20, 1570, Gilles Coppens de Diest at Antwerp issued Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the "first modern atlas" consisting of a set of 53 maps.

It's success can only be estimated from the many editions that were published in the following decades: three Latin editions (besides a Dutch, a French and a German edition) appeared before the end of 1572; twenty-five editions came out before Ortelius' death in 1598; and several others were published subsequently, as the atlas continued to be in demand until about 1612. In 1573 Ortelius published seventeen supplementary maps under the title Additamentum Theatri Orbis Terrarum. Four more Additamenta were to follow, the last one appearing in 1597. In his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ortelius has combined in a systematic manner all recent maps of the world and separate countries, of which he had heard during his long activity as trader and collector. Where several maps of one country were available, he chose the most modern and most reliable copy. When the name of the author was mentioned on the map, Orteius did not change a line or a name then, but, when the author's name was not given, he resolutely made such changes as appeared to him necessary.

He conscientiously gave credit to the author of maps which were published on a reduced scale by himself. Considering geography as an eye of history (historioe oculus), he usually added the ancient historical names of countries and cities to the modern ones. To the atlas he appended a geographical dictionary which contained both the ancient and modern names. More important for us than this dictionary is the appended catalogue of maps ("Catalogus auctorum tabularum geographicarum"), in which appear the names and works of ninety-nine cartographers who lived before 1570. As concerning many of these cartographers we have no other knowledge than that contained in this catalogue, and as Ortelius utilized but forty-six of the maps mentioned by him, this little list is to-day one of the most important sources for a history of cartography.

In 1593 there were 137, in 1612 no less than 166 maps, while the list of authors reached 183 for the time up to 1595; antiquated maps were replaced by more modern ones, or changed according to the more accurate reports forwarded for the most part by missionaries, and it soon appeared not only in the Latin language, but also in Dutch, German, Italian, and French translations. Very numerous were the smaller editions and extracts in the various languages. As late as 1697 there appeared in Venice a "Teatro del Mondo di Abramo Orteio". As the "Theatrum" had been dedicated to the Spanish king Philip II by Ortelius, the latter was given the title of a Royal Geographer ("Geographus regius"). His contemporaries honoured him as the "Ptolemy of his century". 1587 Separate from his atlas Ortelius published in 1587 the "Thesaurus geographicus", which possesses to this day considerable value as a dictionary of old geography.

In the last edition of this work (1596), Ortelius considers the possibility of continental drift, a hypothesis proved correct only centuries later. Ortelius died in June 1598 at the age of 71 and was buried in St Michael's church in Antwerp Abraham Ortelius is credited with publishing the first atlas in the form of a uniform collection of maps with accompanying text, engraved specifically for this purpose, and bound as a book. He is recognized as a genius in the field of cartography. In 1570 he published the first edition of his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum which was an instant success, being the most expensive, but also the best selling book produced in the second half of the 16th century. About 7500 editions of his atlases were published and sold. Abraham Ortelius - University of Wales Trinity Saint David Abraham Ortelius Richard Blome Abraham Ortelius (Abraham Ortels) (1527-1598) was a Flemish cartographer and geographer who is now generally recognised as the creator of the first modern atlas.

Aspiring to become a map-engraver, Ortelius entered the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1547 as an illuminator of maps. He supplemented his income by trading in books, prints, and maps and his journeys included annual visits to the Frankfurt book and print fair where, in 1554, he met Gerhard Mercator; it is Mercator who is credited with steering Ortelius towards the career of a scientific geographer 1 . Detail of Humphrey Llwyd’s 1568 Map of Wales Abraham Ortelius, 1606. Theatrum orbis terrarum Abrahami Orteli Antuerp. geographi regii. (The theatre of the whole world set forth by that excellent geographer Abraham Ortelius). London: Printed by John Norton. (PHI 00231). Presented to St. David’s College by Thomas Phillips in 1834 The first edition of Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, containing fifty-three maps, was published in Antwerp in 1570.

Many of the maps collated by Ortelius were drawn by other artists and it was the Welsh cartographer, Humphrey Llwyd (1527–1568) who contributed his 1568 manuscript map of Wales, to Ortelius's 1573 edition of theTheatrum. Llwyd’s Cambriae Typus is notable in that it was the first map which presented Wales as a territory on its own, as opposed to an adjunct of England. Llwyd’s map delineates the extent of Wales’ borders c.1568 and illustrates its principal rivers, the extent of its forested areas and uplands and the location of its most important towns; although the town of Lampeter is not marked, there was a settlement here from at least Norman times onwards. The inscription Tibius flu. L. Teifi B. hic fluvius solus in Britannia castores habet asserts that the River Teifi, which flows through Lampeter and meets the coast at Cardigan, was the only British river where beavers could still be found. Portfolio Abraham Ortelius. The complete works. (1: Engraving) Portfolio Abraham Ortelius.

The complete works. (1: Engraving) FREE Shipping. FREE Returns All the time. See details. Abraham Ortelius All 1 Artworks from Abraham Ortelius Abraham Ortelius (Abraham Ortels) (April 14, 1527 – June 28, 1598) was a Flemish cartographer and geographer, generally recognised as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World). He is also believed to be the first person to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present positions. Ortelius was born in the city of Antwerp, which was then in the Habsburg ruled Seventeen Provinces. The Orthellius family were originally from Augsburg, a Free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. From 1535, the family, had fallen under suspicion of Protestantism. Following the death of Ortelius' father, his uncle Jacobus van Meteren returned from religious exile in England to take care of Ortelius. Abraham remained close to his cousin Emanuel van Meteren who would later move to London.

In 1575 he was appointed geographer to the king of Spain, Philip II, on the recommendation of Arias Montanus, who vouched for his orthodoxy. He traveled extensively in Europe. He is specifically known to have traveled throughout the Seventeen Provinces; in southern, western, northern, and eastern Germany (e.g., 1560, 1575–1576); France (1559–1560); England and Ireland (1576), and Italy (1578, and perhaps twice or thrice between 1550 and 1558).[citation needed] Beginning as a map-engraver, in 1547 he entered the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as an illuminator of maps. He supplemented his income trading in books, prints, and maps, and his journeys included yearly visits to the Frankfurt book and print fair where he met Gerardus Mercator in 1554.

In 1560, however, when travelling with Mercator to Trier, Lorraine, and Poitiers, he seems to have been attracted, largely by Mercator’s influence, towards the career of a scientific geographer. In 1564 he published his first map, Typus Orbis Terrarum, an eight-leaved wall map of the world. which subsequently appeared in reduced form in the Terrarum (the only extant copy is in now at Basel University Library). He also published a two-sheet map of Egypt in 1565, a plan of the Brittenburg castle on the coast of the Netherlands in 1568, an eight-sheet map of Asia in 1567, and a six-sheet map of Spain before the appearance of his atlas. In England Ortelius' contacts included William Camden, Richard Hakluyt, Thomas Penny, puritan controversialist William Charke, and Humphrey Llwyd, who would contribute the map of England and Wales to Ortelius's 1573 edition of the Theatrum.

In 1578 he laid the basis of a critical treatment of ancient geography by his Synonymia geographica (issued by the Plantin press at Antwerp and republished in expanded form as Thesaurus geographicus in 1587 and again expanded in 1596. In this last edition, Ortelius considers the possibility of continental drift, a hypothesis proved correct only centuries later). In 1596 he received a presentation from Antwerp city, similar to that afterwards bestowed on Rubens. His death on June 28, 1598, and burial, in St Michael’s Præmonstratensian Abbey church in Antwerp, were marked by public mourning. Quietis cultor sine lite, uxore, prole, reads the inscription on his tombstone. On May 20, 1570, Gilles Coppens de Diest at Antwerp issued Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the "first modern atlas" (of 53 maps).

Three Latin editions of this (besides a Dutch, a French and a German edition) appeared before the end of 1572; twenty-five editions came out before Ortelius' death in 1598; and several others were published subsequently, for the atlas continued to be in demand until about 1612. Most of the maps were admittedly reproductions (a list of 87 authors is given in the first Theatrum by Ortelius himself, growing to 183 names in the 1601 Latin edition), and many discrepancies of delineation or nomenclature occur. Errors, of course, abound, both in general conceptions and in detail; thus South America is initially very faulty in outline, but corrected in the 1587 French edition, and in Scotland the Grampians lie between the Forth and the Clyde; but, taken as a whole, this atlas with its accompanying text was a monument of rare erudition and industry.

Its immediate precursor and prototype was a collection of thirty-eight maps of European lands, and of Asia, Africa, Tartary and Egypt, gathered together by the wealth and enterprise, and through the agents, of Ortelius’ friend and patron, Gilles Hooftman, lord of Cleydael and Aertselaer: most of these were printed in Rome, eight or nine only in the Southern Netherlands. In 1573 Ortelius published seventeen supplementary maps under the title Additamentum Theatri Orbis Terrarum. Four more Additamenta were to follow, the last one appearing in 1597. He also had a keen interest and formed a fine collection of coins, medals and antiques, and this resulted in the book (also in 1573, published by Philippe Galle of Antwerp) Deorum dearumque capita ... ex Museo Ortelii (reprinted in 1582, 1602, 1612, 1680, 1683 and finally in 1699 by Gronovius, Thesaurus Graecarum Antiquitatum. vol. vii).

The Theatrum Orbis Terrarum inspired a six volume work entitled Civitates orbis terrarum edited by Georg Braun and illustrated by Frans Hogenberg with the assistance of Ortelius himself. In 1579 Ortelius brought out his Nomenclator Ptolemaicus and started his Parergon (a series of maps illustrating ancient history, sacred and secular). He also published Itinerarium per nonnuilas Galliae Belgicae partes (at the Plantin press in 1584, and reprinted in 1630, 1661 in Hegenitius, Itin. Frisio-Hoil., in 1667 by Verbiest, and finally in 1757 in Leuven), a record of a journey in Belgium and the Rhineland made in 1575. In 1589 he published Maris Pacifici, the first dedicated map of the Pacific to be printed. Among his last works were an edition of Caesar (C. I.

Caesaris omnia quae extant, Leiden, Raphelingen, 1593), and the Aurei saeculi imago, sive Germanorum veterum vita, mores, ritus et religio. (Philippe Galle, Antwerp, 1596). He also aided Welser in his edition of the Peutinger Table in 1598. Originals of Ortelius' maps are popular collector's items and often sell for tens of thousands of dollars. Facsimiles of his maps are also available from many retailers. A map he made of North and South America is also included in the world's largest commercially available jigsaw puzzle which is of four world maps. This puzzle is made by Ravensburger, measures 6 feet (1.8 m) × 9 feet (2.7 m), and has over 18,000 pieces. Ortelius was the first to underline the geometrical coincidence between the coasts of America and Europe-Africa, and to propose continental drift as an explanation.

Kious described Ortelius' thoughts in this way: The continental drift theory was generally accepted in geosciences only during the second half of the 20th century, after the hypotheses of Alfred Wegener[citation needed] had been supported through the discovery of a mechanism for continental drift, and an adequate energy source, in the convection currents of the plastic, very weak upper mantle, or asthenosphere. Abraham Ortell [Ortel, Ortels, Ortelius], né à Anvers, le 14 avril 1527 et décédé dans cette ville le 28 juin 1598, est un cartographe néerlandais (Dix-sept Provinces). Il est, avec Gerardus Mercator, le grand fondateur de la cartographie[réf. nécessaire]. La famille Ortels ou Wortels était originaire d'Augsbourg. Le grand-père d'Abraham, Guillaume... Abraham Ortelius (auch Ortels, Orthellius, Wortels * 4. oder 14. April 1527 in Antwerpen † 28.

Juni 1598 ebenda) war ein flämischer Geograph und Kartograf. Ortelius entstammt einer von Augsburg in die südlichen Niederlande eingewanderten Familie. Er studierte erst bei seinem Onkel Jakob van Meteren und dann auf eigene Initiative Griechisch, Latei... Abraham Ortelius (anche Ortels, Oertel, Orthellius, italianizzato in Abramo Ortelio) (Anversa, 14 aprile 1528 – Anversa, 28 giugno 1598) è stato un cartografo fiammingo. Ortelius fu con Mercatore il grande fondatore della cartografia fiamminga. Dopo avere studiato il greco, il latino e la matematica, si stabilì ad Anversa, il grande porto delle Dic...

Abraham Ortelius (Amberes 14 de abril de 1527 - Amberes, 1598) (también grafiado Ortels, Oertel, Orthellius, Wortels) fue un geógrafo y cartógrafo flamenco, conocido como el «Ptolomeo del siglo XVI». Su obra más conocida es el Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Su primera versión contenía 70 mapas: 56 de zonas de Europa, 10 de Asia y África y uno de cada con... Абрахам Ортелий (лат. Abraham Ortelius, нидерл. Abraham Ortels или Abraham Hortels 14 апреля 1527(15270414) — 28 июня 1598) — южнонидерландский (фламандский) картограф.

Ортелий составил первый в мире географический атлас, состоящий из 53 карт большого формата с подробными пояснительными географическими текстами, который был напечатан в Антверпене ...

亚伯拉罕·奥特柳斯（Abraham Ortelius，1527年4月2日－1598年6月28日），佛兰芒地图学家和地理学家，被广泛认为第一本当代地图集的发明人。 他出生于安特卫普，当时属于哈布斯堡帝国统治的17个省范围之内，现在属比利时。作为奥格斯堡有影响力奥特柳斯家族的一名成员，他多次在欧洲旅行。已知他曾经踏遍全国所有的17个省、德国南部和西部以及北部和东部地区（1560年、1575年至1576年）、法国（1559年至1560年）、英格兰和爱尔兰（1576年）、以及意大利（1578年、1550年和1558年之间可能2－3次）。 他最初是一个地图雕刻师，1547年他进入了安特卫普圣路加公会 。他早期的职业是一个商人，1560年之前他的大部分行程为商业目的（如他每年访问法兰克福书籍和印刷品展览...

Abraham Ortelius (Abraham Ortels) (Antuérpia, 2 de abril de 1527 - 28 de junho, 1598) foi um cartógrafo e geógrafo flamengo, considerado o criador do primeiro Atlas moderno, o Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Ortelius nasceu em Antuérpia, que à epoca pertencia às Dezessete Províncias governadas pela dinastia dos Habsburg, atualmente Reino da Bélgica. Membr...

アブラハム・オルテリウス（Abraham Ortelius、1527年4月14日 - 1598年6月28日）は、フランドル人の地図製作者・地理学者。近代的地図製作の創始者として知られている。 現ベルギーのアントウェルペン生まれ。アウクスブルクの有力者であるオルテリウスファミリーの一員で、ヨーロッパの広範囲を旅行した。 特に、17カ国をくまなく旅行したことで知られ、南及び西ドイツ（1560年、1575年？、1576年）、フランス（1559年-1560年）、イングランド及びアイルランド（1576年）、イタリア（1578年、1550年から1558年の間に恐らく2度か3度）を訪れている。 1547年に地図の刷り師として、アントウェルペンの"afsetter van Karten"のSt Lukeの

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The Orthellius family were originally from Augsburg , a Free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire . From 1535, the family, had fallen under suspicion of Protestantism . Following the death of Ortelius' father, his uncle Jacobus van Meteren returned from religious exile in England to take care of Ortelius. Abraham remained close to his cousin Emanuel van Meteren who would later move to London . [1] In 1575 he was appointed geographer to the king of Spain, Philip II , on the recommendation of Arias Montanus , who vouched for his orthodoxy. He traveled extensively in Europe .

He is specifically known to have traveled throughout the Seventeen Provinces; in southern, western, northern, and eastern Germany (e.g., 1560, 1575–1576); France (1559–1560); England and Ireland (1576), and Italy (1578, and perhaps twice or thrice between 1550 and 1558).[ citation needed ] Beginning as a map-engraver, in 1547 he entered the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as an illuminator of maps . He supplemented his income trading in books, prints, and maps, and his journeys included yearly visits to the Frankfurt book and print fair where he met Gerardus Mercator in 1554. [1] In 1560, however, when travelling with Mercator to Trier , Lorraine , and Poitiers , he seems to have been attracted, largely by Mercator’s influence, towards the career of a scientific geographer.

Map Publisher 1564 Typus Orbis Terrarum In 1564 he published his first map, Typus Orbis Terrarum, an eight-leaved wall map of the world. [1] which subsequently appeared in reduced form in the Terrarum (the only extant copy is in now at Basel University Library ). [2] He also published a two-sheet map of Egypt in 1565, a plan of the Brittenburg castle on the coast of the Netherlands in 1568, an eight-sheet map of Asia in 1567, and a six-sheet map of Spain before the appearance of his atlas. In England Ortelius' contacts included William Camden , Richard Hakluyt , Thomas Penny , puritan controversialist William Charke, and Humphrey Llwyd , who would contribute the map of England and Wales to Ortelius's 1573 edition of the Theatrum.

[1] In 1578 he laid the basis of a critical treatment of ancient geography by his Synonymia geographica (issued by the Plantin press at Antwerp and republished in expanded form as Thesaurus geographicus in 1587 and again expanded in 1596. In this last edition, Ortelius considers the possibility of continental drift , a hypothesis proved correct only centuries later). In 1596 he received a presentation from Antwerp city, similar to that afterwards bestowed on Rubens . His death on June 28, 1598, and burial, in St Michael’s Præmonstratensian Abbey church in Antwerp, were marked by public mourning. Quietis cultor sine lite, uxore, prole, reads the inscription on his tombstone . Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Map of the Persian Empire from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum On May 20, 1570, Gilles Coppens de Diest at Antwerp issued Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the "first modern atlas" (of 53 maps).

Three Latin editions of this (besides a Dutch , a French and a German edition) appeared before the end of 1572; twenty-five editions came out before Ortelius' death in 1598; and several others were published subsequently, for the atlas continued to be in demand until about 1612. Most of the maps were admittedly reproductions (a list of 87 authors is given in the first Theatrum by Ortelius himself, growing to 183 names in the 1601 Latin edition), and many discrepancies of delineation or nomenclature occur. Errors, of course, abound, both in general conceptions and in detail; thus South America is initially very faulty in outline, but corrected in the 1587 French edition, and in Scotland the Grampians lie between the Forth and the Clyde ; but, taken as a whole, this atlas with its accompanying text was a monument of rare erudition and industry.

Its immediate precursor and prototype was a collection of thirty-eight maps of European lands, and of Asia , Africa , Tartary and Egypt , gathered together by the wealth and enterprise, and through the agents, of Ortelius’ friend and patron, Gilles Hooftman , lord of Cleydael and Aertselaer: most of these were printed in Rome , eight or nine only in the Southern Netherlands. In 1573 Ortelius published seventeen supplementary maps under the title Additamentum Theatri Orbis Terrarum. Four more Additamenta were to follow, the last one appearing in 1597. He also had a keen interest and formed a fine collection of coins , medals and antiques , and this resulted in the book (also in 1573, published by Philippe Galle of Antwerp) Deorum dearumque capita ... ex Museo Ortelii (reprinted in 1582, 1602, 1612, 1680, 1683 and finally in 1699 by Gronovius, Thesaurus Graecarum Antiquitatum. vol. vii).

The Theatrum Orbis Terrarum inspired a six volume work entitled Civitates orbis terrarum edited by Georg Braun and illustrated by Frans Hogenberg with the assistance of Ortelius himself. Later maps Maris Pacifici In 1579 Ortelius brought out his Nomenclator Ptolemaicus and started his Parergon (a series of maps illustrating ancient history, sacred and secular). He also published Itinerarium per nonnuilas Galliae Belgicae partes (at the Plantin press in 1584, and reprinted in 1630, 1661 in Hegenitius, Itin. Frisio-Hoil., in 1667 by Verbiest, and finally in 1757 in Leuven), a record of a journey in Belgium and the Rhineland made in 1575. In 1589 he published Maris Pacifici , the first dedicated map of the Pacific to be printed. [3] Among his last works were an edition of Caesar (C. I.

Caesaris omnia quae extant, Leiden, Raphelingen, 1593), and the Aurei saeculi imago, sive Germanorum veterum vita, mores, ritus et religio. (Philippe Galle, Antwerp, 1596). He also aided Welser in his edition of the Peutinger Table in 1598. Modern use of maps Originals of Ortelius' maps are popular collector's items and often sell for tens of thousands of dollars. Facsimiles of his maps are also available from many retailers. A map he made of North and South America is also included in the world's largest commercially available [4] jigsaw puzzle which is of four world maps. This puzzle is made by Ravensburger , measures 6 feet (1.8 m) × 9 feet (2.7 m), and has over 18,000 pieces. Imagining continental drift Ortelius was the first to underline the geometrical coincidence between the coasts of America and Europe-Africa, and to propose continental drift as an explanation.

Kious described Ortelius' thoughts in this way: [5] Abraham Ortelius in his work Thesaurus Geographicus ... suggested that the Americas were "torn away from Europe and Africa ... by earthquakes and floods" and went on to say: "The vestiges of the rupture reveal themselves, if someone brings forward a map of the world and considers carefully the coasts of the three [continents]." The continental drift theory was generally accepted in geosciences only during the second half of the 20th century, after the hypotheses of Alfred Wegener [ citation needed ] had been supported through the discovery of a mechanism for continental drift, and an adequate energy source, in the convection currents of the plastic, very weak upper mantle, or asthenosphere. References Notes ^ Kious, W.J.; Tilling, R.I. (2001) [1996]. "Historical perspective" . This Dynamic Earth: the Story of Plate Tectonics (Online ed.). U.S. Geological Survey. ISBN 0-16-048220-8 . . Retrieved 2008-01-29.

Еditions Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Gedruckt zu Nuermberg durch Johann Koler Anno MDLXXII. Mit einer Einführung und Erläuterungen von Ute Schneider. 2., unveränd. Aufl. (Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2007). Bibliography Emmanuel van Meteren , Historia Belgica (Amsterdam, 1670); H. E. Wauwermans, Histoire de l’école cartographique belge et anversoise (Antwerp, 1895), and article "Ortelius" in Biographie nationale (Belgian), vol. xvi. (Brussels, 1901); J. H. Hessels, Abrahami Ortelii epistulae (Cambridge, England, 1887); Max Rooses, Ortelius et Plantin (1880); Génard, "Généalogie d’Ortelius," in the Bulletin de la Soc. roy. de Géog.

d’Anvers (1880 and 1881), Marcel van den Broecke (1996) Ortelius Atlas Maps (HeS Publishers, 't Goy-Houten, 1996) and Abraham Ortelius and the first atlas; Essays commemorating the Quadricentennial of his Death, 1598–1998 Eds. Marcel van den Broecke, Peter van der Krogt and Peter Meurer (HeS Publishers, 't Goy-Houten, 1998). Binding, Paul. Imagined Corners: Exploring the World's First Atlas. Review Books: London, 2003. Charles Wehrenberg, Before New York, Solo Zone, San Francisco 1995/2001, ISBN 1-886163-16-2 Robert J.

Karrow, Jr., Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and their Maps: Rio-bibliographies of the cartographers of Abraham Ortelius (Chicago, Speculum Orbis Press, 1992) External links Typus Orbis Terrarum Ortelio | ARTISAN MAPS ARTISAN MAPS » GALLERY » WORLD » Typus Orbis Terrarum Ortelio To view a larger image, please click here or hover over the photo above. Typus Orbis Terrarum Ortelio Updating cart... Description: Abraham Ortelius (Antwerp 1527-1598) was a Flemish cartographer and geographer, generally recognised as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World) which was published in forty-two editions in seven languages from 1570 to 1612. He is also believed to be the first person to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present positions. He came to be recognized by his contemporaries as the "Ptolemy of the 16th century".

Typus Orbis Terrarum, his first map (copper engraved) was published in 1564. Its structure follows that of Bordone's oval projection and depicts the globe as it was known at that time. The exquisite aesthetic layout of the map, with its rich and ornate shaping, is a characteristic of Ortelius. Engraving Information: This artistic reproduction of an antique map was made using the same techniques, materials and instruments used for the original. Map is created from a zinc slab that is mounted on a wooden base and printed by hand, a piece at the time, on a press with a limited production size of 20 pieces each time. Map is printed on cotton-paper panels which are glued and mounted on a cotton cloth background "a stacchi" (slightly separated from each other), in order to allow for folding and easier transport. Finally, map is water-colored by hand, making it a truly unique piece, worthy of the original vintage map. Useful Links (provided by Wikipedia): Turcici imperii descriptio | ARTISAN MAPS To view a larger image, please click here or hover over the photo above.

Turcici imperii descriptio Other Images: Description: Abraham Ortelius (Antwerp 1527-1598) was a Flemish cartographer and geographer, generally recognised as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World) which was published in forty-two editions in seven languages from 1570 to 1612. He is also believed to be the first person to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present positions. He came to be recognized by his contemporaries as the "Ptolemy of the 16th century". Engraving Information: This artistic reproduction of a vintage map was made using modern graphic procedures, but obtaining the results found in the antique copperplate engraving technique, as one can easily find out by lightly rubbing his/her finger on the map. This map, which is an exact reproduction of the original antique, is printed on cotton paper panels which are glued and mounted on a cotton cloth background "a stacchi" (slightly separated from each other), in order to allow for folding and easier transport.

Finally, map is water-colored by hand making it a truly unique piece, worthy of the original old print. Useful Links (provided by Wikipedia): Ortelius, Abraham Ortelius, Abraham ( Latin ), Flemish Abraham Ortels , or Wortels born April 14, 1527, Antwerp [Belgium] died July 4, 1598, Antwerp Flemish cartographer and dealer in maps, books, and antiquities, who published the first modern atlas, Theatrum orbis terrarum (1570; Epitome of the Theater of the Worlde). Trained as an engraver, Ortelius about 1554 set up his book and antiquary business. About 1560, under the influence of Gerardus Mercator, Ortelius became interested in mapmaking. Within a decade he compiled maps of the world on a heart-shaped projection (1564), of Egypt (1565), and of Asia (1567), as well as the first edition of the Theatrum, which contained 70 maps, derived from 87 authorities and engraved in a uniform style.

Enlarged and kept up to date in successive editions until late 1612, the Theatrum appears to have been the most popular atlas of its time. He was appointed geographer to Philip II of Spain (1575). A facsimile of the Theatrum was published in 1964. * * * Look at other dictionaries: Ortelius, Abraham — • Belgian cartographer, geographer and archeologist (1527 1598) Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006 … Catholic encyclopedia Ortelius, Abraham — (1527 1598) Dutch mapmaker and printer. A native of Antwerp, he was trained as an engraver but became a dealer in maps and antiquities, travelling widely to collect and sell maps. He became involved in cartography through his acquaintance with … Historical Dictionary of Renaissance Abraham Ortelius — Abraham Ortell [Ortel, Ortels, Ortelius], né à Anvers, le 14 avril 1527 et décédé dans cette ville le 28 juin 1598, est un cartographe néerlandais (Dix sept Provinces).

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Question: Abraham Ortelius, a Flemish cartographer and geographer, is generally recognised as the creator of the first what in 1570 ?
Answer: Modern atlas