Abraham Ortelius (/ɔːrˈtiːliəs/; also Ortels, Orthellius, Wortels; 4 or 14 April 1527 – 28 June 1598) was a cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer...
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World") is considered to be the first true modern atlas. Written by Abraham Ortelius, strongly encouraged by Gillis Hooftman and originally printed on 20...
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World") is considered to be the first true modern atlas. Prepared by Abraham Ortelius and originally printed on May 20, 1570 in Antwerp, it consisted of...
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the life and works of the Antwerp cartographer Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598). In 1996 he published Ortelius Atlas Maps, with in 2011 a new edition, rewritten...
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Abraham Ortelius. Alongside the sumptuous maps of that book Mercator's un-ornamented new maps looked very unattractive. Despite the death of Ortelius...
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collection of maps Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by the Brabantian cartographer Abraham Ortelius printed in 1570.[citation needed] Atlases published nowadays are quite...
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Arthur Holmes proposed mantle convection for that mechanism. Abraham Ortelius (Ortelius 1596), Theodor Christoph Lilienthal (1756), Alexander von Humboldt...
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Europe and the Mediterranean Sea from 1513 Map of Europe from 1570 Abraham Ortelius' map of Europe from 1595 Gerardus Mercator's map from 1595 Expeditions...
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region already well known to the Europeans (e.g., just Guangdong on Abraham Ortelius' 1570 map), and to place the mysterious Cathay somewhere inland. It...
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1531, and the Flemish cartographers Gerardus Mercator in 1538 and Abraham Ortelius in 1570. Schöner's concepts influenced the Dieppe school of mapmakers...
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Pigafetta published an Italian version of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of Abraham Ortelius. Pigafetta's Regnum Congo plays an important role in H. P. Lovecraft's...
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is a map of Africa published by Abraham Ortelius in 1570. It was engraved by Frans Hogenberg and included in Ortelius's 1570 atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum...
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Onegaborg, known from a map from 1592 of the Flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius, and hence translated to Finnish as Äänislinna, a name used during...
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Mercator (Netherlands, 1512–1594) Sebastian Münster (Germany, 1488–1552) Abraham Ortelius (France, 1527–1598), generally recognized as the creator of the first...
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land of the South"), as seen in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum map by Abraham Ortelius (1570). During the 19th century, terra incognita disappeared from maps;...
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Italian cartographer Giacomo Gastaldi in 1562. It appeared on maps by Abraham Ortelius (1564), Bolognini Zaltieri (1567) and Gerardus Mercator (1567). The...
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the original source that is now expected. An early example is the Abraham Ortelius map (1598). Innovations during the 18th century, especially in the...
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considered an important advancement in cartography. This map was drawn by Abraham Ortelius in 1589, based upon a map of America from the same year that was drawn...
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on public display. The map was copied for Brabantian cartographer Abraham Ortelius and published shortly after his death in 1598. A partial first edition...
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The first modern atlas was the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, published by Abraham Ortelius, which included a world map that depicted all of Earth's continents...
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Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Ortelius, Abraham (1570), "Americae sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio [New Description...
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of the Virgin was originally owned by Abraham Ortelius and may have been commissioned by him. In 1574, Ortelius asked Philips Galle to reproduce the painting...
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Jacobus van Meteren's nephew, Leonard Ortels (†1539), the father of Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598), humanist geographer and cartographer. Although Coverdale...
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Map of Italy with Aeaea marked south of Rome (Abraham Ortelius, 1624)...
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famous Ortellius family of mapmakers, and nephew of the cartographer Abraham Ortelius. As a historian Van Meteren was special in that he was not merely a...
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Ioannes Basilius Magnus Imperator Russiae, Dux Moscoviae, by Abraham Ortelius (1574)...
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The first modern atlas was the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, published by Abraham Ortelius, which included a world map that depicted all of Earth's continents...
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Vlissingen, Netherlands. She was renamed Ortelius and registered in Cyprus.[5] On 16 January 2014, Ortelius was scheduled to sail for a 10-day Antarctic...
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1570 map by Abraham Ortelius depicting Terra Australis Nondum Cognita as a large continent on the bottom of the map and also an Arctic continent...
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Map of Ancient Thrace made by Abraham Ortelius in 1585, stating both the names Thrace and Europe....
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