South America retains the unusual bulged south-west coast drawn by Mercator. You can read background material on Ortelius maps. 1624 detail map of the Holy Land by Abraham Ortelius.jpg 2,013 × 3,994 2.38 MB.
For surviving correspondence it is known that Mercator generously encouraged Ortelius to make use of his published corpus of research he also provided him with co-ordinates of places in America and perhaps elsewhere. We have other maps as well, dating from as early as 1493, for instance many woodcut maps and views from Schedels Liber Chronicarum, to maps from the 18th century. Ortelius America.jpg 7,581 × 5,532 6.67 MB. The atlas was printed widely in seven languages and 31. It was engraved by Frans Hogenberg and included in Ortelius's 1570 atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ('Theater of the World'), commonly regarded as the first modern atlas. Nearly all the legends, textual panels and decorative features have been omitted between the oval circumference of the map and the outer frame are now clouds, and, below, a quotation from Cicero. Africae Tabula Nova ('New Map of Africa') is a map of Africa published by Abraham Ortelius in 1570. Ortelius' world map is a simplified one-sheet reduction of Mercator's large world map which had appeared the year before. "For the first time, in 1570, all elements of the modern atlas were brought to publication in Abraham Ortelius Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Galleon and sea monsters, German text on verso (repaired along central fold, minor marginal staining, a few short tears repaired on verso, a few tiny chips).įIRST STATE. Įngraved hand-colored world map, image 338 x 495 mm (404 x 534 mm sheet).
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