Cartography for the benefit of mankind: hemispherical world map by Abraham Orlelins, 1603.(Map Of The Month)(Brief Article)

From: Geographical | Date: June 1, 2004 | Copyright information

This hand-coloured copper engraving measures just 5.5 centimetres where it appears on the title page of Nomenclator Ptolemaicus, a 77-page gazetteer found at the end of post-1579 editions of the world atlas Theatrum orbis terrarum by Abraham Ortelius (1527-98). This example was printed in Antwerp by Robert Bruneau in 1603, by which time it was only 30 pages in length.

A geographer and historian and the cartographer to King Philip II of Spain, Ortelius is thought to have ...

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