![]() ![]() ![]() R/PaperTowns - For well-crafted pictorial maps, detailed panoramic cityscapes, broad aerial vistas, intricate bird's-eye views and even full 3D reconstructions. R/Gis - For the technical side of cartography and geography. R/WorldBuilding - For sharing your worlds and discussing the many aspects of creating new universes. R/ImaginaryMaps - For maps from fictional stories, books, films, television programs, video games, and comics. For everything you need to know about flags. R/Vexillology - If you're interested in more ways people symbolically stake out territory. R/MapMaking - If you're getting the feeling you'd like to try your hand at cartography. R/History and r/MedievalHistory - For historical background. R/ArtHistory - For background on the artistic styles that influenced mapmakers through history. In the creation of the map, Ortelius either copied greatly from Mercator’s Great World Map of 1569 or used many of the same sources as a number of similarities arise between the two maps. ![]() R/Geography - If you're curious about the geography that informed historic mapmapkers. This map is perhaps the most famous and easily recognizable maps of the New World from this period (Burden, 51). ![]() R/MapPorn - For gorgeous wallpaper-size maps of all descriptions. R/Maps - If you're interested in maps and cartography generally (or modern maps specifically). We'll happily accept historical maps! If you're posting a map, please provide a description and date in the title. The expedition was now down to three ships and had to face a long Pacific crossing with all the crew suffering from scurvy until they finally arrived in the Philippines. This map by Abraham Ortelius shows the Victoria crossing the Pacific. This tiny map is a charming depiction of the island showing the rivers and cities. Ortelius/Galle, Cyprus Insula, from Epitome du Theatre du Monde., 1598 (published). Ortelius's small Atlas The Epitome published from 1590 ran for many editions and was very popular.We're interested in sharing interesting, beautiful or informative examples of the cartographer's trade, from their emergence in the ancient Near East up to a somewhat arbitrary end-date of 1950 A.D. Map of the Pacific Ocean, Battista Agnese, 1544, Library of Congress. This catalog is 'VIEW ONLY' on LiveAuctioneers - bids must be placed at. with many newly prepared maps began to supersede Ortelius' work. Publication reverted to the Plantin Press, under the control of the Moretus brothers, from 1612.Īlthough only the relatively unsuccessful atlases of De Jode and, ultimately, Mercator were published during the sixteenth century life of the Theatrum …, in 1607 Jodocus Hondius's issue of Mercator's Atlas. Between 16 it was published by Johann Baptist Vrients, who added a variety of fine maps including the very decorative large plates of England and Wales, and of Ireland. Amongst this latter category, the maps added in the 1580's and 90's of the world, the Americas, China, the Pacific, Japan, Peru and Florida, and Iceland are important historically and justly famous.The maps themselves are finely engraved, often very decorative and generally found with text on the reverse.Īfter Ortelius' death in 1598 the atlas continued to be printed and published by the Plantin Press. Marcel Van Den Broecke, whose fascinating work on Ortelius and his maps is often quoted, estimates that around 7300 complete atlases were published using a total of 234 copperplates, either replacements or reworkings as plates became out-dated, worn, or as new information became available. Over 30 different editions, with text in Latin, French, Dutch, German, Italian, English or Spanish, testify to the popularity and esteem attributed to the work. It was also an immediate commercial success, being reprinted four times in 1570. In 1570 he published the first comprehensive collection of maps of all parts of the world, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ('Theatre of the World'), the first modern atlas as we know it. The atlas achieved instant fame as "the world's first regularly produced atlas" (Skelton), being the first atlas with maps prepared to a uniform format. Abraham Ortelius is the most famous and most collected of all early cartographers. Having already become probably the greatest cartographic bibliographer of the period, Ortelius was able to prepare 53 map sheets based on the most up-to-date information, which were engraved by Frans Hogenberg, and first published in 1570. At this time, Ortelius also began preparing his greatest project, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. From about 1560, possibly as a result of his friendship with Mercator, Ortelius began to produce maps - an eight sheet world map being the earliest. ![]()
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