![]() ![]() South America retains the unusual bulged southwest coast, which is no longer present in the later edition of 1589. Ortelius roughly adopted the American continent from Mercator. Ortelius also used the 1561 world map of Giacomo Gastaldi and Diego Gutierrez' portolan chart of the Atlantic. Geographically, the map is mainly based on Mercator's large map of the world, which was published a year earlier in 1569 and is only preserved in three copies. Ortelius' map was copied widely, and derivatives were later used to illustrate works by Voisin, Broughton, Maffei, Belle-Forest, Petri, Hakluyt and others. Through its launching, pre-eminence in map publishing was transferred from Italy to the Netherlands leading to over hundred years of Dutch supremancy in all facets of cartographical production. Unlike earlier compositions such as the Italian composite or 'Lafreri' atlases, each of Ortelius' maps was engraved specifically for his atlas according to uniform format. ![]() This substantial undertaking assembled fifty-three of the best available maps of the world by the most renowned and up-to-date geographers. 122:įor the first time, in 1570, all the elements of the modern atlas were brought to publication in Abraham Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Shirley describes the Ortelius Atlas with this world map in The Mapping of the World, No. At the bottom a quote by Cicero, in translation, For what human affairs can seem important to a man who keeps all eternity before his eyes and knows the vastness of the universe? Decorated with a galleon and two sea monsters. The beautiful world map in an oval projection is surrounded by clouds, above the title in a scroll-work cartouche. A detailed description of the known world in German on the back side. The present example is from the first state of the first plate and the German first edition printed in 1572. "As the first world map occurring in the first regular atlas, this map is of fundamental importance in the history of cartography." (M. From the first modern atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius. The first World Map in the First Regular Atlas - with Old Colours.Ī fine old coloured and early example of one of the most famous world maps ever published.
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