By this time he had formed a fine collection of coins, medals and antiques, and this produced (also in 1573, published by Philippe Galle of Antwerp) his Deorum dearumque capita. In 1573 Ortelius published seventeen supplementary maps under the title of Additamentum Theatri Orbis Terrarum.
Its immediate precursor and prototype was a collection of thirty-eight maps of European lands, and of Asia, Africa, Tartary and Egypt, gathered together by the wealth and enterprise, and through the agents, of Ortelius’ friend and patron, Gilles Hooftman, lord of Cleydael and Aertselaer: most of these were printed in Rome, eight or nine only in Belgium. Errors, of course, abound, both in general conceptions and in detail thus South America is very faulty in outline, and in Scotland the Grampians lie between the Forth and the Clyde but, taken as a whole, this atlas with its accompanying text was a monument of rare erudition and industry. Most of the maps were admittedly reproductions (a list of 87 authors is given by Ortelius himself), and many discrepancies of delineation or nomenclature occur. Three Latin editions of this (besides a Flemish, a French and a German edition) appeared before the end of 1572 twenty-five editions came out before Ortelius' death in 1598 and several others were published subsequently, for the vogue continued till about 1612. In 1570 ( May 20) was issued, by Gilles Coppens de Diest at Antwerp, Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the "first modern atlas" (of 53 maps). He also published a map of Egypt in 1565, a plan of Brittenburg Castle on the coast of the Netherlands, and a map of Asia, before the appearance of his great work. Bernoulli, Ein Karteninkunabelnband, Basle, 1905, p. The only extant copy of this great map is in the library of the University of Basle (cf. In 1564 he completed a "mappemonde", eight-leaved map of the world, which afterwards appeared in the Theatrum. In 1560, however, when travelling with Gerardus Mercator to Trier, Lorraine and Poitiers, he seems to have been attracted, largely by Mercator’s influence, towards the career of a scientific geographer in particular he now devoted himself, at his friend’s suggestion, to the compilation of that atlas or ' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' (Theatre of the World) by which he became famous. His early career is that of a businessman, and most of his journeys before 1560 are for commercial purposes (such as his yearly visits to the Frankfurt fair). He is specifically known to have traveled throughout the Seventeen Provinces south and west Germany (e.g., 1560, 1575-1576) France (1559-1560) England and Ireland (1571), and Italy (1578, and perhaps twice or thrice between 15).īeginning as a map-engraver, in 1547 he entered the Antwerp gild of St Luke as afsetter van Karten.
A member of the influential Ortelius family of Augsburg, he traveled extensively in Europe. He was born in Antwerp in modern Belgium. Abraham Ortelius ( Abraham Orthellius, Abraham Ortels, Abraham Wortels) ( Ap1598) was a cartographer and geographer, credited as the creator of the modern atlas.
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