![]() Single territory rights for trade books worldwide rights for academic books. ![]() Print and/or digital, including use in online academic databases. Web display, social media, apps or blogs. Personal presentation use or non-commercial, non-public use within a company or organization only. Not for commercial use, not for public display, not for resale. Late in life, he also aided Welser in his edition of the Peutinger Table (1598).Personal Prints, Cards, Gifts, Reference. In 1584 he issued his Nomenclator Ptolemaicus, a Parergon (a series of maps illustrating ancient history, sacred and secular). In 1578 he laid the basis of a critical treatment of ancient geography with his Synonymia geographica (issued by the Plantin press at Antwerp and republished as Thesaurus geographicus in 1596). In 1575 he was appointed geographer to the king of Spain, Philip II, on the recommendation of Arias Montanus, who vouched for his orthodoxy (his family, as early as 1535, had fallen under suspicion of Protestantism). From Abraham Ortelius atlas, Theatrvm orbis terrarvm - ERE-HISL001-EC115-H from agefotostocks photo. Date of the first edition: 1570 Date of this map: 1592 Copper engraving Size: 34.5 x 46.5cm (13.5 x 18. Download and buy this stock image: 1570 map of Europe. In 1573, Ortelius published seventeen supplementary maps under the title of Additamentum Theatri Orbis Terrarum. Item Number: 25254 Authenticity Guarantee Category: Antique maps > Europe > Europe Continent References: Van der Krogt 3 - 1000:31B (Variant b) Van den Broecke - 5 (Second plate) Karrow - 1/10 Old, antique map of Europe by A. In 1570 he issued the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first. You will directly support creation of new maps by buying a copy. This map is available in print in various styles. (2) 155470, from Mercator to the printed atlas of Abraham Ortelius and (3) after. ![]() I have digitally restored and remastered the map to show it in all its glory you can see the original here. Waldseemller was also the first to print a map of Europe as a whole. His first remarkable map was a 8 sheet world map in the year 1564, but only three copies have survived. The map below is a 1572 copy of a map of Europe created by Abraham Ortelius in 1571. He established a business in dealing with books and drawing maps. He studied mathematics, Greek and Latin and travelled a lot across Europe. Most of the maps in Ortelius' Theatrum were drawn from the works of a number of other mapmakers from around the world a list of 87 authors is given by Ortelius himself Abraham Ortelius was born 1527 in Antwerp. Later editions would also be issued in Spanish and English by Ortelius’ successors, Vrients and Plantin, the former adding a number of maps to the atlas, the final edition of which was issued in 1612. By the time of his death in 1598, a total of 25 editions were published including editions in Latin, Italian, German, French, and Dutch. On May 20, 1570, Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum first appeared in an edition of 70 maps. Ortelius also published a map of Egypt in 1565, a plan of Brittenburg Castle on the coast of the Netherlands, and a map of Asia, prior to 1570. The only extant copy of this great map is in the library of the University of Basel. In 1564 he completed his “ mappemonde", an eight-sheet map of the world. From that point forward, he devoted himself to the compilation of his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World), which would become the first modern atlas. In 1560, while traveling with Gerard Mercator to Trier, Lorraine, and Poitiers, he seems to have been attracted, largely by Mercator’s influence, towards a career as a scientific geographer. His early career was as a business man, and most of his journeys before 1560, were for commercial purposes. In 1547 he entered the Antwerp guild of St Luke as afsetter van Karten. Trained as an engraver, Ortelius about 1554 set up his book and antiquary business. The inspiration for this map may well have been Gastaldis large world map. Abraham Ortelius, Flemish Abraham Ortels or Abraham Wortels, (born April 14, 1527, Antwerp Belgiumdied July 4, 1598, Antwerp), Flemish cartographer and dealer in maps, books, and antiquities, who published the first modern atlas, Theatrum orbis terrarum (1570 Theatre of the World). Ortelius started his career as a map colorist. The full title of Ortelius' map translates to, A very new description of the peaceful sea, commonly called South Sea with the regions lying around it. In 1564 he published his first map, a large and ambitious world wall map. ![]() African Islands, including Madagascar (65)Ībraham Ortelius is perhaps the best known and most frequently collected of all sixteenth-century mapmakers. ![]()
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