![]() At least one copy has been noted with an additional letterpress title page, not included in foliation above. |a An abridgment by Coignet of: Theatrum orbis terrarum. |b Printed for Ieames Shawe, and are to be solde at his shoppe nigh Ludgate, |a Addition to the epitomies of Abraham Ortelius his littel theatre. and amplefyed with larger descriptions, then any done heere to fore. mathematition of Antwarpe beeinge more exactlye set forth. |b nowe latlye, since the Latine Italian, Spanishe, and Frenche editions, renewed and augmented, the mappes all newe grauen according to geographicall measure. |a Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the Theater of the worlde Eisenhower Parkway, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-3218 The maps are mostly similar to those of Ortelius & Galle of 1598 but remade with minor changes.|b ProQuest. In 1601 Vrients published the new version of the „Epitome“. In 1600 he acquired the plates of the „Epitome“ and subsequently the plates of the „Theatrum“, too. Johannes Baptista Vrients, known under numerous different names was an established Antwerp publisher. The inscription on his tombstone reads: „Quietis cultor sine lite, uxore, prole“ (Served quietly, without accusation, wife, and offspring). Michael‘s Abbey in Antwerp were marked by public mourning. The final edition was published in 1612.Īlso remarkable about Ortelius is that he has been the first to underline a similarity between the coasts of America and Europe-Africa and to propose continental drift as an explanation.Ībraham Ortelius is often considered as the father of the Golden Age of the Dutch cartography. Over the decades the atlas has tripled in size. In 1575 he was appointed geographer to the King of Spain, Philipp II.īy the time of his death in 1598, a total of 25 editions were published including editions in Latin, Italian, German, French and Dutch later editions were issued in Spanish and English by Ortelius‘ successors Galle and Vrients. In 1573 Ortelius started editing supplementary maps under the title „Addimentum Theatri Orbis Terrarum“. It was the first uniformly sized, systematic collection of maps of the countries of the world based on contemporary knowledge and in that sense may be called the first modern atlas“ (Tooley, Maps and Mapmakers). „The publication of this atlas marked an epoch in the history of cartography. In 1564 Ortelius published his first map „Typus Orbis Terrarum“, an eight-leaved wall map of the world and in 1570 the Atlas „Theatrum Orbis Terrarum“ (Theatre of the World) with 53 maps. Due to his influence Ortelius seems to have been attracted towards the career of a scientific geographer. He travelled a lot and at the Frankfurt book and print fair he met Gerardus Mercator in 1554. In 1547 he entered the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as „afsetter van Karten“ (illuminator of maps) and became a business man dealing with books, prints and maps. Abraham started his career as a map engraver. The „Ortellius“ family was originally from Augsburg/Germany, a Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire. He was born in Antwerp which was then in the Habsburg Netherlands (now Belgium). Abraham Ortelius (1527 – 1598) & Johannes Baptista Vrients (1552 – 1612)Ībraham Ortelius was a Flemish/Dutch mapmaker and is perhaps the best known and most frequently collected of all sixteenth-century mapmakers.
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