In 1564, Ortelius published his first map, the Typus Orbis Terrarum, which was an eight-leaved map of the world. Seven years later when traveling to Frankfurt, he met Gerardus Mercator, a reknowned cartographer, who had similar interests. The Guild was for painters and artists within the city. His penchant and studies into map making and engraving began at the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke when he was twenty years old. His family had been accused of Protestanism, although that does not seem to have fallen on Abraham. Ortelius was born in the city of Antwerp in today's Belgium, but in the beginning of the century, part of Habsberg, Netherlands and part of the Holy Roman Empire. The vestiges of the rupture reveal themselves, if someone brings forward a map of the world and considers carefully the coasts of the three. that the Americas were "torn away from Europe and Africa. One of the most interesting, but little noticed at the time, texts written by Ortelius included the theory that the continents had at one time been joined, noticing the geometric symmetry of the coasts of America to Europe and Africa. Mercator, also, invented the word, "Atlas" to a book of maps. Mercator, whom Ortelius knew personally, should be credited with providing at least eight plates to the compilation, derived from Mercator's previous, 1869, map of the world that for the first time used the new projections of sailing courses as straight lines that are still used today in nautical maps. Thirty-three cartographers had been used to create the maps, including Gerardus Mercator (France), Giacomo Gastaldi (Italy), and Diego Gutierrez (Spain). By the end of 1572, there were three Latin editions, plus one Dutch, French, and German editions as well. The Theatrum Orbis Terrarum was published by Gilles Coppens de Diest in various editions. They were the same size, organized by continent, and with text written by Ortelius that explained them. He sourced the various maps to other cartographers, but, unlike other maps, which had been independent and specific to the needs they were drawn, this book contained all the maps of the world in one book. The text of the maps were written by him, and organized by him, but not drawn by Ortelius. Ortelius was forty-three years old when he completed the atlas, encouraged by Gillis Hooftman van Eyckelberg, a Dutch merchant and shipbuilder who would own one hundred ships and trade with Russia, and to ports in the Baltic Sea, Arctic Ocean, and North Africa. Without all those men who went searching for the Northwest passage and found other things instead, Ortelius would have nothing to base his fifty-three maps within the Theater of the World on. Now, we should not get ahead of ourselves here. Yes, more than the Vikings who had gone before, or the numerous expeditions by men like Cabot, Verrazano, Coronado, Hudson, and many others prior and after the dates of successful colonization in the territory of the United States. Yes, more than Columbus and his four voyages to find a passage to Asia by sailing west, but finding the Americas and the Caribbean instead. In many ways, the accomplishment of Abraham Ortelius would have as much impact on the exploration of the world, and particularly the New World of the Americas, than any within the first one hundred years of European conquest. He is credited with first to imagine continents had at one time been joined together. Shirley 122, plate 104.Detail - 1570 Abraham Ortelius, Flemish Netherlands cartographer publishes the first modern world atlas of fifty-three maps, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World). There is evidence of the crack at the lower left of the present example. There was a crack that appeared across the lower left-hand corner in the latter 1570's, which was roughly mended and the whole border of the clouds substantially reworked. South America retains the unusual bulged south-west coast drawn by Mercator There is also a prudent comment adjacent to New Guinea querying whether this large island is part of the southern continent or not. From surviving correspondence it is known that Mercator generously encouraged Ortelius to make use of this published corpus of research he also provided him with co-ordinates of places in America and perhaps elsewhere. Nearly all of the legends, textual panels and decorative features have been omitted between the oval circumference of the map and the outer frame are now clouds, and, below, a quotation from Cicero. As described by Tooley, "Ortelius' world map is a simplified one-sheet reduction of Mercator's large world map which appeared the year before. The first (of three) world maps that were included in Ortelius' famed atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, and used for the first sixteen editions. Copper-engraved map, hand-colored (later?).
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